On 29-07-08 21:35, Rohit Sharma wrote:
I was going through the function "ext2_find_near" in inode.c and could not interpret the meaning of the last part of this code :
Am definitely not an fs person, but the comment just above ext2_find_near() explains a bit.
Colouring the location like that lessens the chances of a concurrent allocation -- supposedly from a different PID -- finding the exact same spot and both of them clashing at the point where the actual allocation happens (so that, I suppose, one of them must go back and try to find a new location all over again).
Now whether or "pid % 16" is actually a good colour in practice... Rene. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
