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From: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Important for fs devs: rcu-walk merged upstream
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:08:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110111010800.GE4879@mail.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimBrR1LkVHOxZA=UUmKsnxfsFLr9z_AhXUHQ_7N@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 01:54:47PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> The rcu-walk stuff can be more tricky for your filesystem
> to take advantage of.
> 
> If you supply a .d_revalidate, .permission, or .check_acl,
> then path walking is going to be slow and unscalable for
> you.

	Do you mean "as slow and unscalable as it has always been" or
"even slower now"?  A quick look suggests the former, but I wanted to be
sure.

Joel

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 In shades of mediocrity.
 Like emptiness in harmony
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-11  1:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-08  2:54 Important for fs devs: rcu-walk merged upstream Nick Piggin
2011-01-08  9:10 ` Marco Stornelli
2011-01-11  9:57   ` Nick Piggin
2011-01-11 11:08     ` Miklos Szeredi
2011-01-10 14:38 ` J. R. Okajima
2011-01-11 12:57   ` Nick Piggin
2011-01-11  1:08 ` Joel Becker [this message]
2011-01-11 13:06   ` Nick Piggin
2011-01-13 14:58 ` Miklos Szeredi
2011-01-13 16:18   ` Miklos Szeredi
2011-01-14  1:21     ` Nick Piggin
2011-01-14  8:45       ` Miklos Szeredi
2011-01-14  8:52         ` Nick Piggin
2011-01-14  9:38           ` Miklos Szeredi

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