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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 19:56:30 +0100
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl,
        Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: corruption
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On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 04:08:26AM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
> Problem fixed by Jens' patch had been there since March, so if it's a

No, it's there only since Jens fixed the request merging bug in test11 or so.

With previous kernel the head pointer couldn't change so that change
was unnecessary and initializing it outside the critical section was
a micro scalability optimization :).

Andrea
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