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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: suparna@in.ibm.com
Cc: sct@redhat.com, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [RFC] ext3/jbd race: releasing in-use journal_heads
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 23:37:42 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050307233742.79737606.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050308072650.GA3998@in.ibm.com>

Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> (let me know if the interface in the patch
>  I just posted seems like the right direction to use when we go for the
>  cleanup)

Well what are the semantics?  Pass in an inclusive max_index and the gang
lookup functions terminate when they hit an item whose index is greater
than max_index?  And return the number of items thus found?

Seems sensible, and all the comparisons do the right thing if max_index = -1.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-08  7:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-04 19:54 [RFC] ext3/jbd race: releasing in-use journal_heads Stephen C. Tweedie
2005-03-04 23:17 ` [Ext2-devel] " Badari Pulavarty
2005-03-07 14:28   ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2005-03-05  0:04 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-07 14:50   ` Jan Kara
2005-03-07 16:01     ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2005-03-07 16:40   ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2005-03-07 17:05     ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2005-03-07 20:31     ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-07 21:08       ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2005-03-07 21:11         ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-07 21:22           ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2005-03-07 23:13             ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2005-03-07 23:50               ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-08  6:28                 ` [Ext2-devel] " Suparna Bhattacharya
2005-03-08  6:39                   ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2005-03-08  6:46                   ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-08  7:26                     ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2005-03-08  7:37                       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-03-08  8:15                         ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2005-03-08  9:28                 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2005-03-08 12:40                   ` [PATCH] invalidate/o_direct livelock {was Re: [RFC] ext3/jbd race: releasing in-use journal_heads} Stephen C. Tweedie
2005-03-08 12:53         ` [RFC] ext3/jbd race: releasing in-use journal_heads Stephen C. Tweedie
2005-03-08 15:12           ` Jan Kara
2005-03-09 13:10             ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2005-03-09 13:28               ` Jan Kara
2005-03-09 15:12                 ` Stephen C. Tweedie

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