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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH 04/15] ps3vram: Replace mutex by spinlock + list
Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 21:05:05 +0200
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Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org, Jim Paris <jim@jtan.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 04:01:13PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Remove the mutex serializing access to the cache.
> Instead, queue up new requests on a list if the driver is busy.

This should use the bio list helpers moved into bio.h in commit
8f3d8ba20e67991b531e9c0227dcd1f99271a32c