From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 22:20:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 22:20:29 -0400 Received: from roc-24-169-102-121.rochester.rr.com ([24.169.102.121]:57029 "EHLO roc-24-169-102-121.rochester.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 22:20:16 -0400 Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 22:20:34 -0400 From: Chris Mason To: Daniel Phillips , Andrea Arcangeli cc: Linus Torvalds , Andreas Dilger , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: linux-2.4.10-pre5 Message-ID: <1324600000.1000088434@tiny> In-Reply-To: <20010910021513Z16066-26183+696@humbolt.nl.linux.org> In-Reply-To: <20010910001556Z16150-26183+680@humbolt.nl.linux.org> <20010910035519.B11329@athlon.random> <20010910020752Z16066-26184+197@humbolt.nl.linux.org> <20010910021513Z16066-26183+696@humbolt.nl.linux.org> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.1.0 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday, September 10, 2001 04:22:25 AM +0200 Daniel Phillips wrote: > On September 10, 2001 04:15 am, Daniel Phillips wrote: >> On September 10, 2001 03:55 am, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: >> > getblk should unconditionally alloc a new bh entity and only care to >> > map it to the right cache backing store with a pagecache hash lookup. >> >> To feel anything like the original the new getblk has to be idempotent: >> subsequent calls return the same block. > > Err, buffer_head How about subsequent calls for the same offset with the same blocksize need to return the same buffer head? -chris