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From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
To: linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: A question on block_prepare_write()
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 22:44:42 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1287841482.1681.36.camel@leonhard> (raw)

Hello,

I see block_prepare_write() has local variable wait[2] to keep track of
buffer_heads which are not up-to-date. But I'm wondering how it could be
guaranteed there will be no more than 2 such buffer_heads? Is there any
restriction on the usage of the function? Using MAX_BUF_PER_PAGE instead
of the magic number 2 is just useless? I couldn't find any comments or
documentation on this.

Any of your comments would be greatly appreciated. TIA. :-)

-- 
Regards,
Namhyung Kim



             reply	other threads:[~2010-10-23 13:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-23 13:44 Namhyung Kim [this message]
2010-10-23 17:40 ` A question on block_prepare_write() Andrew Morton
2010-10-23 18:00   ` Namhyung Kim
2010-10-23 18:00     ` Namhyung Kim

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