From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>,
Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: iget4/read_inode2 race in get_new_inode
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 21:13:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020429211337.A32523@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020429205850.04929c00@pop.cus.cam.ac.uk>; from aia21@cantab.net on Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 09:07:30PM +0100
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 09:07:30PM +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> >Don't do this - rather use the XFS-style icreate() plus per-filesystem
> >exclusion. The VFS shouldn't have to worry about this kind of problems,
> >especially with such an ugly API.
>
> Well, I find the icreate ugly... The name is extremely misleading IMO.
Find a better name.. (and no, please not 'iget_without_read_inode').
> Why do you want to bring a massive per-sb-global lock onto each fs?!? That
> is ridiculous, IMHO. And will certainly cause scalability problems on SMP.
How do you think it can scale worse than the global inode lock?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-29 20:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-29 16:14 iget4/read_inode2 race in get_new_inode Jan Harkes
2002-04-29 16:48 ` Jan Harkes
2002-04-29 17:49 ` Alexander Viro
2002-04-29 19:34 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-04-29 19:39 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-04-29 19:41 ` Steve Lord
2002-04-29 19:51 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-04-29 19:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-04-29 20:07 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-04-29 20:13 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2002-04-29 20:24 ` Jan Harkes
2002-04-29 20:28 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-04-29 20:20 ` Jan Harkes
2002-04-29 20:31 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-04-29 20:48 ` Steve Lord
2002-04-29 20:58 ` Jan Harkes
2002-04-29 21:04 ` Steve Lord
2002-04-29 21:34 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-04-29 22:36 ` Alexander Viro
2002-04-29 22:54 ` Jan Harkes
2002-04-29 17:18 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-04-29 17:33 ` Jan Harkes
2002-04-29 17:44 ` Alexander Viro
2002-04-29 18:02 ` Jan Harkes
2002-04-29 18:22 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-04-29 18:30 ` Steve Lord
2002-04-29 18:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-04-29 19:20 ` Steve Lord
2002-04-29 19:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-04-29 22:02 ` Chris Mason
2002-04-29 19:12 ` Jan Harkes
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