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On Tue, Nov 04 2003, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:49:30AM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > > That could work, but it breaks the rule that counts are always accurate. > > Yes, it means that recount may return a higher value but it is never > lower. Precisely. Historically, that would have caused panics in some drivers even though it is safe :) > I think it should be safe though as recount is not always called (it is > only called if the phys/hw segments exceed the limits). In the cases > where it is not called you may be looking at an overestimate anyway. I think it is safe too, just want to make absolutely sure. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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