From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 22:15:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 22:15:08 -0400 Received: from humbolt.nl.linux.org ([131.211.28.48]:5892 "EHLO humbolt.nl.linux.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 22:15:01 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: Andrea Arcangeli , Chris Mason Subject: Re: linux-2.4.10-pre5 Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 04:22:25 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andreas Dilger , Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20010910001556Z16150-26183+680@humbolt.nl.linux.org> <20010910035519.B11329@athlon.random> <20010910020752Z16066-26184+197@humbolt.nl.linux.org> In-Reply-To: <20010910020752Z16066-26184+197@humbolt.nl.linux.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <20010910021513Z16066-26183+696@humbolt.nl.linux.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On September 10, 2001 04:15 am, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On September 10, 2001 03:55 am, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > getblk should unconditionally alloc a new bh entity and only care to map > > it to the right cache backing store with a pagecache hash lookup. > > To feel anything like the original the new getblk has to be idempotent: > subsequent calls return the same block. Err, buffer_head -- Daniel