Re: Small fix in buffer cache

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Sun, 5 Dec 1999 16:37:58 +0100 (CET)


On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Jan Kara wrote:

> I've found a small bug in create_buffers(). When buffer is created it
>is not attached to any list. The patch simply does refile_buffer() on

It's not a bug. You don't need them attached to any list. You attach the
buffer to a list only when you made it dirty and so you want
kupdate/kflushd to sync it back to disk eventually.

Andrea

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