Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:27:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:27:18 -0500 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:594 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:27:11 -0500 Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 19:56:30 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Alexander Viro Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, Tigran Aivazian , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: corruption Message-ID: <20001129195630.A6006@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from viro@math.psu.edu on Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 04:08:26AM -0500 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/