From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: hugetlb locking bug.
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:13:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110415211334.GA24870@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1302901766.2035.39.camel@laptop>
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:09:26PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Is there a sane reason they do their own magic, and thus need a copy of
> the logic, instead of using the generic code that already has it?
There is not need to use the inode hash for purely in-memory
filesystem. The dcache tells us if an entry already exists,
so there is no need to a lru list, hash or other overhead.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-15 21:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-15 20:16 hugetlb locking bug Dave Jones
2011-04-15 20:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-15 20:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-15 21:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-04-15 21:13 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-04-15 21:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-04-15 21:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-15 21:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-15 21:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-12-14 11:59 ` Mimi Zohar
2011-04-15 21:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
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2011-08-22 15:34 Josh Boyer
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