On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, William Montgomery wrote:
>Would it also be correct to allow "goto repeat" only one time for the
>buffer cache?
Oh yes. That's exactly the same problematic.
>Also, with this method, is it necessary to process bottom halfs after
>b_count--?
It's never necessary, but you'd better do that since you took the bh busy
for so long. In this case it's better to not take the bh busy in first
place and of course to not process the current bh after a sleep.
Andrea
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