Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 Oct 2001 15:19:48 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Poor floppy performance in kernel 2.4.10 |
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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.
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