From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:03:28 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [PATCH] invalidate_bdev() speedup
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.18-rc4~130
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0e1dfc66b6ec94984a4778132147a8aa36461d58;p=pandora-kernel.git

[PATCH] invalidate_bdev() speedup

We can immediately bail from invalidate_bdev() if the blockdev has no
pagecache.

This solves the huge IPI storms which hald is causing on the big ia64
machines when it polls CDROM drives.

Acked-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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