Re: corruption

Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-29T19:27:28Z

On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 04:08:26AM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
> Problem fixed by Jens' patch had been there since March, so if it's a

No, it's there only since Jens fixed the request merging bug in test11 or so.

With previous kernel the head pointer couldn't change so that change
was unnecessary and initializing it outside the critical section was
a micro scalability optimization :).

Andrea