Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 May 1999 17:45:08 -0400 (EDT) | From | Chuck Lever <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.8_andrea1.bz2 |
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On Thu, 13 May 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > >correct, there are no changes in getblk() 2.2.7 -> 2.2.8. however, if > >flushtime is no longer relevant, then this piece of code is now > > Ah ok, that was my complain too but I think that flushtime is been killed > by mistake. Note also that with a better design you won't need to set > flushtime to zero anymore. Look at my buffer.c to see my redesign of > flushtime.
agreed -- checking buffer_dirty in getblk() is a kludge.
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