Re: [ Mind testing experimental one-liner? ]
Simon Kirby (sim@netnation.com)
Sun, 17 Jan 1999 15:25:31 -0800 (PST)
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, David S. Miller wrote:
> >
> > Btw, if you're willing to test some more, there's a much less intrusive
> > way to get basically the same behaviour:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > How about just renaming it to __get_hash_table, add an extra arg "int
> > uptodate_nowait", make a macro "get_hash_table" which just expands to
> > passing the new arg as zero. Then call the internal version directly
> > from places you know it is safe with the new arg as one? Seems much
> > cleaner to me, and no code duplication (ie. unnecessary bloat).
>
> Yes. However, I found another thing that needs to be changed: you need to
> also remove the "wait_on_buffer()" in brelse(), which is why the system
> still gets stuck with the other change.
>
> That should get you running..
Do you have a patch I could test or will this be in a new pre soon enough?
Simon-
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