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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-08-14 12:19:59 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-08-14 12:19:59 +0200
commit8d7ccaa545490cdffdfaff0842436a8dd85cf47b (patch)
tree8129b5907161bc6ae26deb3645ce1e280c5e1f51 /drivers/net/cassini.c
parentb2139aa0eec330c711c5a279db361e5ef1178e78 (diff)
parent30a2f3c60a84092c8084dfe788b710f8d0768cd4 (diff)
Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc3' into x86/prototypes
Conflicts: include/asm-x86/dma-mapping.h Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/cassini.c')
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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/cassini.c b/drivers/net/cassini.c
index 83768df2780..f1936d51b45 100644
--- a/drivers/net/cassini.c
+++ b/drivers/net/cassini.c
@@ -576,6 +576,18 @@ static void cas_spare_recover(struct cas *cp, const gfp_t flags)
list_for_each_safe(elem, tmp, &list) {
cas_page_t *page = list_entry(elem, cas_page_t, list);
+ /*
+ * With the lockless pagecache, cassini buffering scheme gets
+ * slightly less accurate: we might find that a page has an
+ * elevated reference count here, due to a speculative ref,
+ * and skip it as in-use. Ideally we would be able to reclaim
+ * it. However this would be such a rare case, it doesn't
+ * matter too much as we should pick it up the next time round.
+ *
+ * Importantly, if we find that the page has a refcount of 1
+ * here (our refcount), then we know it is definitely not inuse
+ * so we can reuse it.
+ */
if (page_count(page->buffer) > 1)
continue;