From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>,
George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>,
"Chandramouleeswaran, Aswin" <aswin@hp.com>,
John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Norton, Scott J" <scott.norton@hp.com>,
Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/1] dcache: Translating dentry into pathname without taking rename_lock
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 03:25:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130910022505.GW13318@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFw8aHnDgj1WBhPGMpi9ZHaNpa2roDW5wuxF1Xab49QTew@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 06:34:16PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Maybe it should then?
>
> It doesn't need to. The RCU lookup looks at individual dentry sequence
> numbers and doesn't care about the bigger rename sequence number at
> all.
One name: Mark V. Shaney...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-10 2:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-09 16:18 [PATCH v4 0/1] dcache: Translating dentry into pathname without taking rename_lock Waiman Long
2013-09-09 16:18 ` [PATCH v4 1/1] " Waiman Long
2013-09-09 17:29 ` Al Viro
2013-09-09 17:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-09 17:56 ` Waiman Long
2013-09-09 18:06 ` Al Viro
2013-09-09 18:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-09 18:21 ` Al Viro
2013-09-09 18:36 ` Al Viro
2013-09-09 18:46 ` Al Viro
2013-09-09 18:46 ` Waiman Long
2013-09-09 19:10 ` Al Viro
2013-09-09 19:28 ` Al Viro
2013-09-09 22:57 ` Waiman Long
2013-09-10 0:40 ` George Spelvin
2013-09-10 0:57 ` Al Viro
2013-09-10 1:15 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-09-10 1:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-10 2:25 ` Al Viro [this message]
2013-09-10 2:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-10 3:12 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-09-10 8:24 ` George Spelvin
2013-09-10 3:57 ` Waiman Long
2013-09-09 17:55 ` Waiman Long
2013-09-09 18:07 ` Al Viro
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