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> Andrew Morton wrote:
> This is saying "is the buffer is not on any list, then place it on
> the mapping's list now. If the buffer _is_ already on some list
> then we know it must already be on mapping->private_list, so we
> have nothing to do".
>
> Re-dirtying an already-dirty buffer is an extremely common case,
> and here we look for an opportunity to avoid dirtying a cacheline
> or two.
This makes some since except that
buffer_insert_list(&buffer_mapping->private_lock,
bh, &mapping->private_list);
only adds &bh->b_assoc_buffers to the end of mapping->private_list
not the buffer itself.
--
Cheers
Rob Maloy
r.w.maloy@acm.org
(410) 854-6637
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