Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Apr 2004 17:14:15 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [parisc-linux] rmap: parisc __flush_dcache_page |
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On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 09:40:37AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > Whatever seems most convenient that won't impact the flushing fast path, > I suppose. It's one of the hottest paths in the system since all data > transfers go through it for user visibility.
you'd need to take a semaphore there to be safe, so it's basically unfixable since you can't sleep or just trylock. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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