Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 17 Jan 1999 15:25:31 -0800 (PST) | From | Simon Kirby <> | Subject | Re: [ Mind testing experimental one-liner? ] |
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On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, David S. Miller wrote: > > > > Btw, if you're willing to test some more, there's a much less intrusive > > way to get basically the same behaviour: > > > > ... > > > > How about just renaming it to __get_hash_table, add an extra arg "int > > uptodate_nowait", make a macro "get_hash_table" which just expands to > > passing the new arg as zero. Then call the internal version directly > > from places you know it is safe with the new arg as one? Seems much > > cleaner to me, and no code duplication (ie. unnecessary bloat). > > Yes. However, I found another thing that needs to be changed: you need to > also remove the "wait_on_buffer()" in brelse(), which is why the system > still gets stuck with the other change. > > That should get you running..
Do you have a patch I could test or will this be in a new pre soon enough?
Simon-
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