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.
next prev parent 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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