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From: Martin Wilck <martin.wilck@fujitsu-siemens.com>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [1/4] standardize bit waiting data type
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 11:53:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41383F33.4050503@fujitsu-siemens.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2y7Hd-1aP-21@gated-at.bofh.it>

William Lee Irwin III wrote:

> @@ -153,15 +119,13 @@
>  void __wait_on_buffer(struct buffer_head * bh)
>  {
>  	wait_queue_head_t *wqh = bh_waitq_head(bh);
> -	DEFINE_BH_WAIT(wait, bh);
> +	DEFINE_WAIT_BIT(wait, &bh->b_state, BH_Lock);
>  
> -	do {
> -		prepare_to_wait(wqh, &wait.wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
> -		if (buffer_locked(bh)) {
> -			sync_buffer(bh);
> -			io_schedule();
> -		}
> -	} while (buffer_locked(bh));
> +	prepare_to_wait(wqh, &wait.wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
> +	if (buffer_locked(bh)) {
> +		sync_buffer(bh);
> +		io_schedule();
> +	}
>  	finish_wait(wqh, &wait.wait);
>  }

Why don't you need a do..while loop any more ?

There is also no loop in __wait_on_bit() in the completed patch series.

Cheers
Martin

       reply	other threads:[~2004-09-03  9:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found]             ` <2y7Hd-1aP-21@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-09-03  9:53               ` Martin Wilck [this message]
2004-09-03  9:42                 ` [1/4] standardize bit waiting data type William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-03  9:55                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-26  8:47 2.6.9-rc1-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-08-28  5:26 ` [0/4] standardized waitqueue hashing William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-28  5:31   ` [1/4] standardize bit waiting data type William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-28  6:17     ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-28  6:34       ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-28  6:40         ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-28  6:48           ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-28  9:20             ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-28  9:18     ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-28  9:20       ` William Lee Irwin III

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