Re: [git pull] vfs pile 2 (automount work)

[Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 09:44:26PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:

> Already fixed.  Actually, taking it out of ifdef would work (the only
> place that actually cares about the value of that sucker is SMP side
> of mntput()), but we are obviously better off just not touching it on
> UP at all - why do pointless work and waste space?
> 
> See the patch upthread.  ->mnt_longterm is SMP-only optimization of
> mntput(); it's there only to free the common case of mntput() from
> cacheline bouncing and on UP it's needed at all.

PS: the patch does survive UP beating.  Could you pull
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6.git/ for-linus ?
There's only one patch at the moment:

Al Viro (1):
      mnt_longterm is there only on SMP

 fs/namespace.c |   31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)