From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 04:25:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 04:24:54 -0400 Received: from fe000.worldonline.dk ([212.54.64.194]:28430 "HELO fe000.worldonline.dk") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 04:24:43 -0400 Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 10:26:14 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Kernel Mailing List , Alexander Viro , "David S. Miller" , Andrea Arcangeli , Alan Cox , David Woodhouse , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: 2.4.7-pre9.. Message-ID: <20010720102614.A13354@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20010720092202.A9525@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing On Fri, Jul 20 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > > Attached are two patches -- one that should fix DAC960 for this new > > completion scheme, and one that corrects the corrected comment in > > blkdev.h :-) > > No, the correction of the correction is worse. ? > The paging stuff doesn't use any of this. The paging stuff use the page > cache lock bit, and always has. Paging still hits a request, I assumed that's what the (really really) old comment meant to say. > The only thing that uses request completion checking are special commands, > like the initial SCSI spin-up etc (scsi_init_one()). Sure, and IDE ide_wait etc. -- Jens Axboe