Re: elevator-starvation-5 (request queue rewrite)

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Wed, 16 Feb 2000 03:28:32 +0100 (CET)


On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>If you think a cast like "(signed)" will just cast to whatever signed type

You guessed right my wrong thought.

>the thing has, then you're wrong. The cast "(signed)" is equivalent to
>"(signed int)" which in turn is the same as "(int)".

Woops...

>What you want to do is to use similar "before()" and "after()" stuff as
>used by the TCP layer. Make it explicit, don't try to re-use the stuff
>that is used for time-keeping.

I'll do now. Thanks!!

Andrea

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