Re: [PATCH] exclusive wakeup for lock_buffer

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> > --- linux/include/linux/locks.h.orig	Mon Feb 19 23:16:50 2001
> > +++ linux/include/linux/locks.h	Mon Feb 19 23:21:48 2001
> > @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
> >   * lock buffers.
> >   */
> >  extern void __wait_on_buffer(struct buffer_head *);
> > +extern void __lock_buffer(struct buffer_head *);
> 
> So are we starting 2.5 now ?

Alan,

This patch only avoids unecessary wakeups. It doesn't add any new
functionality.