From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@digeo.com,
pmckenne@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: Always passing mm and vma down (was: [RFC][PATCH] Convert do_no_page() to a hook to avoid DFS race)
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 06:13:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030602131305.GA1370@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1054542770.5187.1.camel@laptop.fenrus.com>
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 10:32:50AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 22:00, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > The immediate motivation is to avoid the race with zap_page_range()
> > when another node writes to the corresponding portion of the file,
> > similar to the situation with vmtruncate(). The thought was to
> > leverage locking within the distributed filesystem, but if the
> > race is solved locally, then, as you say, perhaps this is not
> > necessary.
>
> is said distributed filesystem open source by chance ?
At least one soon will be.
Thanx, Paul
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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@digeo.com,
pmckenne@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: Always passing mm and vma down (was: [RFC][PATCH] Convert do_no_page() to a hook to avoid DFS race)
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 06:13:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030602131305.GA1370@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1054542770.5187.1.camel@laptop.fenrus.com>
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 10:32:50AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 22:00, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > The immediate motivation is to avoid the race with zap_page_range()
> > when another node writes to the corresponding portion of the file,
> > similar to the situation with vmtruncate(). The thought was to
> > leverage locking within the distributed filesystem, but if the
> > race is solved locally, then, as you say, perhaps this is not
> > necessary.
>
> is said distributed filesystem open source by chance ?
At least one soon will be.
Thanx, Paul
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-30 23:41 [RFC][PATCH] Convert do_no_page() to a hook to avoid DFS race Paul E. McKenney
2003-05-30 23:41 ` Paul E. McKenney
2003-05-31 1:00 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-31 1:00 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-31 23:51 ` Paul E. McKenney
2003-05-31 23:51 ` Paul E. McKenney
2003-08-09 18:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-08-09 18:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-08-10 12:06 ` Paul E. McKenney
2003-08-10 12:06 ` Paul E. McKenney
2003-06-01 19:33 ` Paul E. McKenney
2003-06-01 19:33 ` Paul E. McKenney
2003-05-31 8:46 ` Always passing mm and vma down (was: [RFC][PATCH] Convert do_no_page() to a hook to avoid DFS race) Ingo Oeser
2003-05-31 8:46 ` Ingo Oeser
2003-05-31 23:48 ` Paul E. McKenney
2003-05-31 23:48 ` Paul E. McKenney
2003-06-01 12:22 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-06-01 20:00 ` Paul E. McKenney
2003-06-01 20:00 ` Paul E. McKenney
2003-06-02 8:32 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-06-02 13:13 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2003-06-02 13:13 ` Paul E. McKenney
2003-06-04 10:38 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-06-04 10:38 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-06-07 16:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2003-06-07 16:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
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