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From: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Subject: Re: Important for fs devs: rcu-walk merged upstream
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:08:01 -0800
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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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