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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2.4.0-test8] mm/filemap.c
Also sprach Juan J. Quintela:
} >>>>> "bill" == Bill Wendling <wendling@ganymede.isdn.uiuc.edu> writes:
}
} Hi
}
} Linus, please don't apply.
}
} bill> - The `head = &mapping->pages;' statement is useless inside the
} bill> repeat, since head isn't modified inside the loop.
}
} No, but we sleep inside the loop, and while we sleep, we don't have
} locked the page cache :((((
}
As David pointed out, it's only necessary if mapping->pages changes. But,
then, shouldn't the head = &mapping->pages statement be within the
spinlock?

} If you think that the for is nicer (I think that the while is easier
} to read, but that is question of taste).
}
It's not really a question of taste. The for loop does the increment
after the block of code. Doing it beforehand is a waste if the repeat is
taken.

Attached is a new patch which just addresses this issue and leaves the
head = &mapping->pages thingy alone...

--
|| Bill Wendling wendling@ganymede.isdn.uiuc.edu
--- linux-2.4.0-test8/mm/filemap.c Sat Sep 9 02:35:09 2000
+++ linux-2.4.0-test8-new/mm/filemap.c Thu Sep 14 12:09:21 2000
@@ -193,12 +193,10 @@
repeat:
head = &mapping->pages;
spin_lock(&pagecache_lock);
- curr = head->next;
- while (curr != head) {
+ list_for_each(curr, head) {
unsigned long offset;

page = list_entry(curr, struct page, list);
- curr = curr->next;
offset = page->index;

/* Is one of the pages to truncate? */
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