Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Poor floppy performance in kernel 2.4.10 | Date | Sat, 27 Oct 2001 21:26:37 +0200 | From | Alain Knaff <> |
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> > >On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Alain Knaff wrote: > >> And "mapping" itself seems to point to i_data of the device's inode >> structure (not the device entry's inode, but the device's itself). > >> Which means that if the inode is put (all references to the block >> device closed), and later the same major/minor is reopened, it may > >Stop here. bdev->bd_inode is destroyed only when bdev is destroyed. >If we make block_device long-living (i.e. they stay around until all >pages are evicted from cache _or_ device gets unregistered) ->bd_inode >will follow.
That would be ok with me. Long live block_device! ;-)
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