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From: Keir Fraser <keir.xen@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: slow xp hibernation revisited
Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2011 08:51:53 +0100
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On 04/06/2011 08:38, "James Harper" <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au> wrote:

> Looking past the test_bit call, the next statement does another test and
> sets last_address_index to 0 and returns NULL. Is this just to ensure
> that the next access isn't just trivially accepted?

Yes, first test is on a potentially stale bucket. Second test is on a fresh
bucket.

 -- Keir