clarified some comments

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Sears Russell 2011-08-19 22:07:22 +00:00
parent 50ec28e806
commit 6e1ba8fe48

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@ -99,18 +99,22 @@ static int chWriteBackPage_helper(stasis_buffer_manager_t* bm, pageid_t pageid,
// When we optimize for sequential writes, we try to make sure that
// write back only happens in a single thread. Therefore, there is
// no reason to put dirty pages in the LRU, and lruFast will ignore
// dirty pages that are inserted into it. Since we may be making a dirty
// page become clean here, we remove the page from LRU, and put it
// back in. (There is no need to do this if the sequential
// optimizations are turned off...)
// dirty pages that are inserted into it.
// Since we may be making a dirty page become clean here, we remove
// the page from LRU, and put it back in.
if(stasis_buffer_manager_hint_writes_are_sequential)
// The removal sets the page's ref count. It does nothing else if
// the page is dirty.
ch->lru->remove(ch->lru, p);
// write calls stasis_page_flushed(p);
ch->page_handle->write(ch->page_handle, p);
// Put the page back in LRU iff we just took it out.
if(stasis_buffer_manager_hint_writes_are_sequential)
// Put the page back in LRU iff we just took it out / changed its
// ref count.
ch->lru->insert(ch->lru, p);
p->needsFlush = 0;