From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: marcelo@conectiva.com.br (Marcelo Tosatti)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox),
torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds),
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (lkml)
Subject: Re: [PATCH] exclusive wakeup for lock_buffer
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 22:33:15 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E14VLLS-0000rO-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0102201827520.3901-100000@freak.distro.conectiva> from "Marcelo Tosatti" at Feb 20, 2001 06:30:29 PM
> > > extern void __wait_on_buffer(struct buffer_head *);
> > > +extern void __lock_buffer(struct buffer_head *);
> >
> > So are we starting 2.5 now ?
>
> Alan,
>
> This patch only avoids unecessary wakeups. It doesn't add any new
> functionality.
I think making potentially very hard to debug changes to core code for
minor performance reasons alone isnt 2.4.x work. At least not yet
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-20 22:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-20 0:03 Marcelo Tosatti
2001-02-20 2:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-02-20 0:51 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-02-20 3:12 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-19 19:28 ` John Heil
2001-02-20 20:30 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-02-20 22:33 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-02-21 3:09 ` Ulf Carlsson
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