Re: [RFC] changes to buffer.c (was Test12 ll_rw_block error)

Marcelo Tosatti (marcelo@conectiva.com.br)
Fri, 5 Jan 2001 16:43:28 -0200 (BRST)


On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:

> Also, you do not want the writer to block on writing out buffers
> if bdflush could write them out asynchronously while the dirty
> buffer producer can work on in the background.

flush_dirty_buffers() do not wait on the buffers written to get clean.

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