From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: neilb@suse.de, balbir@in.ibm.com, akpm@osdl.org,
aviro@redhat.com, jblunck@suse.de, dev@openvz.org, olh@suse.de,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix dcache race during umount
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:27:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <11117.1150986477@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15603.1150978967@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
> I'd like to propose an alternative to your patch to fix the dcache race
> between unmounting a filesystem and the memory shrinker.
>
> In my patch, generic_shutdown_super() is made to call shrink_dcache_sb()
> instead of shrink_dcache_anon(), and the latter function is discarded
> completely since it's no longer used.
On the other hand, I can make my patch just alter the effect of yours.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-22 14:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-22 12:22 [PATCH] Fix dcache race during umount David Howells
2006-06-22 14:27 ` David Howells [this message]
2006-06-22 16:08 ` Jan Blunck
2006-06-22 16:44 ` Jan Blunck
2006-06-23 13:28 ` Jan Blunck
2006-06-24 5:23 ` Neil Brown
2006-06-24 9:16 ` David Howells
2006-06-24 13:33 ` [PATCH] Destroy the dentries contributed by a superblock on unmounting David Howells
2006-06-25 6:48 ` Neil Brown
2006-06-25 16:02 ` David Howells
2006-06-25 16:30 ` Nick Piggin
2006-06-26 6:05 ` Neil Brown
2006-06-26 11:21 ` David Howells
2006-06-27 0:53 ` Neil Brown
2006-06-27 10:17 ` David Howells
2006-06-27 22:55 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-27 23:18 ` David Howells
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