Re: [2.6 patch] include/linux/bio.h: "extern inline" -> "static inline"

2005-07-27 Thread Kimball Murray
Jens Axboe wrote: On Tue, Jul 26 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: "extern inline" doesn't make much sense. Yep, thanks. IIRC, there was a time when the extern inline construct was used to catch cases where the compiler did not inline the function (you'd get a link error). Seems like

Re: [2.6 patch] include/linux/bio.h: extern inline - static inline

2005-07-27 Thread Kimball Murray
Jens Axboe wrote: On Tue, Jul 26 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: extern inline doesn't make much sense. Yep, thanks. IIRC, there was a time when the extern inline construct was used to catch cases where the compiler did not inline the function (you'd get a link error). Seems like it

Re: Dirty page tracking patch

2005-07-11 Thread Kimball Murray
Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 09:16 -0400, Kimball Murray wrote: Hello to all. On behalf of Stratus Technologies (www.stratus.com) I'd like to present a patch to the i386 kernel code that will allow developers to track dirty memory pages. Stratus uses

Dirty page tracking patch

2005-07-11 Thread Kimball Murray
or it, how to improve it technically, or even if there's a better way to do this. In its current state, it is pretty lightweight, but it's inevitable that developers will find ways to make it better, and more versatile. Thank in advance for those that take an interest in this discussion. - Kimb

Dirty page tracking patch

2005-07-11 Thread Kimball Murray
it technically, or even if there's a better way to do this. In its current state, it is pretty lightweight, but it's inevitable that developers will find ways to make it better, and more versatile. Thank in advance for those that take an interest in this discussion. - Kimball Murray

Re: Dirty page tracking patch

2005-07-11 Thread Kimball Murray
Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 09:16 -0400, Kimball Murray wrote: Hello to all. On behalf of Stratus Technologies (www.stratus.com) I'd like to present a patch to the i386 kernel code that will allow developers to track dirty memory pages. Stratus uses