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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>,
	Robert Wisniewski <bob@watson.ibm.com>,
	Tim Bird <tim.bird@AM.SONY.COM>,
	karim@opersys.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] relayfs redux, part 3
Date: 5 Feb 2005 07:57:22 +0100
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 07:57:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050205065722.GA52309@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16899.62896.559319.678176@tut.ibm.com>

> The main reason would be that length would be 0 only if the buffers
> were full, so the caller can suspend writing if it sees that, until
> e.g. a daemon catches up.

Would be? Is there actually any caller doing this? 

Better eliminate it and if someone really does it add a separate function
that checks this condition.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-05  6:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-04 20:17 [PATCH] relayfs redux, part 3 Tom Zanussi
2005-02-04 21:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-02-04 22:00   ` Tom Zanussi
2005-02-04 21:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-02-04 22:06   ` Tom Zanussi
2005-02-04 22:12 ` Andi Kleen
2005-02-04 22:22   ` Tom Zanussi
2005-02-05  6:57     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-02-05  9:54 ` [PATCH] relayfs redux, part 3 II - another comment Andi Kleen

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