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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Add extended attributes to ext2/3
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 10:21:19 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021015162119.GF15552@clusterfs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021015171606.A29069@infradead.org>

On Oct 15, 2002  17:16 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 10:04:17AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > > -	mb_cache_lock();
> > > +	spin_lock(&mb_cache_spinlock);
> > >  	l = mb_cache_lru_list.prev;
> > >  	while (l != &mb_cache_lru_list) {
> > >  		struct mb_cache_entry *ce =
> > >  			list_entry(l, struct mb_cache_entry, e_lru_list);
> > 
> > Couldn't these all be "list_for_each{_safe}"?
> 
> They'd have to be list_for_each_safe_prev, which is not currently
> in list.h.  The EVMS folks have a patch to add it, though..

Is there a reason why the code can't just add items into the list in
the reverse order (i.e. list_add_tail()) and then walk in the normal
direction via list_for_each_safe()?

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/


  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-15 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-15  3:33 [PATCH 1/4] Add extended attributes to ext2/3 tytso
2002-10-15  4:46 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-15  5:04   ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-10-15  5:31   ` Andreas Dilger
2002-10-15 13:05     ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-10-15 10:26 ` Olaf Dietsche
2002-10-15 11:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-15 13:15   ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-10-15 15:25     ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-15 15:31     ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-15 16:04       ` Andreas Dilger
2002-10-15 16:16         ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-15 16:21           ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2002-10-15 16:43             ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2002-10-15 16:41       ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-10-15 16:59         ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-15 15:33     ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-15 15:34     ` Christoph Hellwig

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