Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263950AbUDNIRO (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Apr 2004 04:17:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263963AbUDNIRO (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Apr 2004 04:17:14 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:32658 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263950AbUDNIRO (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Apr 2004 04:17:14 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 01:16:53 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Jeff Garzik Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] conditionalize some boring buffer_head checks Message-Id: <20040414011653.22c690d9.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <407CF201.408@pobox.com> References: <407CEB91.1080503@pobox.com> <20040414005832.083de325.akpm@osdl.org> <20040414010240.0e9f4115.akpm@osdl.org> <407CF201.408@pobox.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 509 Lines: 13 Jeff Garzik wrote: > > I would rather not kill the code in submit_bh() outright, just disable > it for non-filesystem developers. submit_bh() is a slowpath ;) The one in mark_buffer_dirty() will be called more often, possibly others. Kill! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/