Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 23 Dec 2000 11:02:53 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] changes to buffer.c (was Test12 ll_rw_block error) |
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On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Chris Mason wrote: > > I've updated to test13-pre4, and removed the hunk for submit_bh. > Looks as though pre4 changed the submit_bh callers to clear the dirty > bit, so my code does the same.
Basically, I wanted to think of "submit_bh()" as a pure IO thing. When we call submit_bh(), that is basically the same as "statr IO on this thing". Which implies to me that submit_bh() doesn't care, or know, about why the higher layers did this.
Which is why I prefer the higher layers handling the dirty/uptodate/xxx bits.
Linus
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