From: Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] invalidate buffers on blkdev_put
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 16:02:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E15o9FF-0005Ve-00@schizo.psychosis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0109242333240.21827-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0109242118540.29038-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> <20010927140312.A35@toy.ucw.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20010927140312.A35@toy.ucw.cz>
On Thursday 27 September 2001 10:03, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > It's solvable, but not obvious. It _does_ solve coherency problems
> > > between device page cache and buffer cache (thus killing
> > > update_buffers() and its ilk), but the last issue (new access path to
> > > page-private buffer_heads) may be rather nasty.
> >
> > It's certainly solvable, but it is also certainly very fraught with tons
> > of small details. I'll be very happy if people end up looking through the
> > patches _very_ critically (and don't even bother testing them if you
> > don't have a machine where you can lose a filesystem or two).
>
> Time to rename 2.4.10 to 2.5.0? ;-)
<Waving hand> It broke my feature patch. Good enough for me. ; >
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-25 3:18 Chris Mason
2001-09-25 3:52 ` Alexander Viro
2001-09-25 4:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-27 14:03 ` Pavel Machek
2001-10-01 20:02 ` Dave Cinege [this message]
2001-09-25 22:59 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-09-26 3:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-26 22:42 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-09-27 0:03 ` Andreas Dilger
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