On Fri, Jul 20 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >
> > > The paging stuff doesn't use any of this. The paging stuff use the page
> > > cache lock bit, and always has.
> >
> > Paging still hits a request, I assumed that's what the (really really)
> > old c
On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Jens Axboe wrote:
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> > The paging stuff doesn't use any of this. The paging stuff use the page
> > cache lock bit, and always has.
>
> Paging still hits a request, I assumed that's what the (really really)
> old comment meant to say.
No. Tha paging stuff (and _all_ regular
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> I'm getting ready to do a 2.4.7, but one of the fixes in 2.4.7 is a
> nasty SMP race that was found and made it clear that using an old
> trick of having a semaphore on the stack and doing "down()" on it to
> wait for some event (that would do the "up()") was a really ba
On Fri, Jul 20 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Jens Axboe wrote:
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> > Attached are two patches -- one that should fix DAC960 for this new
> > completion scheme, and one that corrects the corrected comment in
> > blkdev.h :-)
>
> No, the correction of the correction is
On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Jens Axboe wrote:
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> Attached are two patches -- one that should fix DAC960 for this new
> completion scheme, and one that corrects the corrected comment in
> blkdev.h :-)
No, the correction of the correction is worse.
The paging stuff doesn't use any of this. The paging
On Thu, Jul 19 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> I'm getting ready to do a 2.4.7, but one of the fixes in 2.4.7 is a nasty
> SMP race that was found and made it clear that using an old trick of
> having a semaphore on the stack and doing "down()" on it to wait for some
> event (that would do the "u
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