On Monday, September 10, 2001 04:22:25 AM +0200 Daniel Phillips
<phillips@bonn-fries.net> wrote:
> On September 10, 2001 04:15 am, Daniel Phillips wrote:
>> On September 10, 2001 03:55 am, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>> > getblk should unconditionally alloc a new bh entity and only care to
>> > map it to the right cache backing store with a pagecache hash lookup.
>>
>> To feel anything like the original the new getblk has to be idempotent:
>> subsequent calls return the same block.
>
> Err, buffer_head
How about subsequent calls for the same offset with the same blocksize need
to return the same buffer head?
-chris
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