Messages in this thread |  | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][CFT] (updated) ext2 directories in pagecache | Date | Sun, 13 May 2001 04:13:19 +0200 |
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On Sunday 13 May 2001 00:18, Alexander Viro wrote: > On Sat, 12 May 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > We could use the "buffer_uptodate" flag on the buffer to signal > > that the block has been checked. AFAIK, a new buffer will not be > > uptodate, and once it is it will not be read from disk again... > > However, if a user-space process read the buffer would also mark it > > uptodate without doing the check... Maybe we should use a new BH_ > > pointer... Just need to factor out the ext2_check_page() code so > > that it works on a generic memory pointer and end pointer. > > Or you could simply use ext2_get_page() and forget about this crap.
I tried that first. The resulting code was not nice and worked only for 4K block_size, as far as I took it.
I'm not sure what advantage you see in ext2_get_page, perhaps you can explain. -- Daniel - 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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