Re: linux-2.4.10-pre5

From: Daniel Phillips (phillips@bonn-fries.net)
Date: Sun Sep 09 2001 - 21:22:25 EST


On September 10, 2001 04:15 am, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On September 10, 2001 03:55 am, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > getblk should unconditionally alloc a new bh entity and only care to map
> > it to the right cache backing store with a pagecache hash lookup.
>
> To feel anything like the original the new getblk has to be idempotent:
> subsequent calls return the same block.

Err, buffer_head

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Daniel
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