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Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 01:01:22 +0200
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.10-pre11
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On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 05:17:23PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> Andrea, had you seen the off-list mail (cc: to you and Linus)?  The main
> problem I have right now is that I don't see how you manage to guarantee
> that during the last ->release() no requests are going in.  Old code

bdev->bd_sem + bdev->bd_cache_openers.

Andrea