aa-040-touch_buffer

Andrew Morton (akpm@zip.com.au)
Tue, 19 Mar 2002 19:56:38 -0800


Move the touch_buffer() from bread into getblk().

Fair enough. The touch_buffer() call tells the VM "please don't evict
this page, I'm about to use it". Doing it in getblk() will provide
better coverage than doing it in bread(). I would actually prefer to
do it in get_hash_table(), but that's a minor detail.

=====================================

--- 2.4.19-pre3/fs/buffer.c~aa-040-touch_buffer Tue Mar 19 19:48:54 2002
+++ 2.4.19-pre3-akpm/fs/buffer.c Tue Mar 19 19:49:15 2002
@@ -1032,8 +1032,10 @@ struct buffer_head * getblk(kdev_t dev,
struct buffer_head * bh;

bh = get_hash_table(dev, block, size);
- if (bh)
+ if (bh) {
+ touch_buffer(bh);
return bh;
+ }

if (!grow_buffers(dev, block, size))
free_more_memory();
@@ -1196,7 +1198,6 @@ struct buffer_head * bread(kdev_t dev, i
struct buffer_head * bh;

bh = getblk(dev, block, size);
- touch_buffer(bh);
if (buffer_uptodate(bh))
return bh;
ll_rw_block(READ, 1, &bh);
-
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