Re: [patch] swap-speedup-2.4.3-A2

2001-04-23 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > The above is NOT how the page cache works. Or if some part of the page > cache works that way, then it is a BUG. You must NEVER allow multiple > outstanding reads from the same location - that implies that you're > doing something wrong, and the syste

Re: [patch] swap-speedup-2.4.3-A2

2001-04-23 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > you are right - i thought about that issue too and assumed it works like > the pagecache (which first reads the page without hashing it, then tries > to add the result to the pagecache and throws away the page if anyone else > finished it already), but