Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Sep 1999 11:17:36 +0200 (CEST) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [patch] flushpage SMP race with ll_rw_block/bdflush |
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On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, David S. Miller wrote:
>Last I checked, all the places where multiple bit state checks are >done are safe and are guarded by other locking mechanisms already.
Yes, I agree that such optimization won't harm now but using the bitops looks the right thing to do to me. I think if you want to mix the bitflags you should do the thing by hand (exactly as we _just_ do in buffer_busy() for example).
Andrea
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