On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>do something like
>
> int wait;
>
> if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_IO))
> goto unlock_continue;
> wait = nr_dirty-- < 0;
We still want to recycle the clean buffers from a GFP_BUFFER allocation.
The fix I prefer is to pass gfp_mask to try_to_free_buffers and to call
sync_page_buffers only if __GFP_IO was set (checking for it inside
try_to_free_buffers).
Andrea
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