Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Sun, 17 Jan 1999 09:48:13 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [ Mind testing experimental one-liner? ] |
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On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, David S. Miller wrote: > > Btw, if you're willing to test some more, there's a much less intrusive > way to get basically the same behaviour: > > ... > > How about just renaming it to __get_hash_table, add an extra arg "int > uptodate_nowait", make a macro "get_hash_table" which just expands to > passing the new arg as zero. Then call the internal version directly > from places you know it is safe with the new arg as one? Seems much > cleaner to me, and no code duplication (ie. unnecessary bloat).
Yes. However, I found another thing that needs to be changed: you need to also remove the "wait_on_buffer()" in brelse(), which is why the system still gets stuck with the other change.
That should get you running..
Linus
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