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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] sunrpc: fix race in new cache_wait code.
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:46:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100923144647.GD1054@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100923032540.GA13554@fieldses.org>

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:25:40PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 01:00:02PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
> > How about this.
> > It gets rid of the return values (which were confusing anyway) and adds
> > explicit checks on CAHCE_PENDING where needed.
> > ??
> 
> Thanks, I'll take a look in the morning when my head's (hopefully)
> clearer.

Looks reasonable to me on a quick skim.

> > Also, I noticed there is a race with the call to cache_limit_defers.  The
> > 'dreq' could be freed before that is called.
> > 
> > It looks like I need to resubmit a lot of this - do you want to just discard
> > it all from your -next and I'll make something new?
> 
> I'm trying very hard not to rewind -next; so I'd prefer incremental
> patches for anything already there, replacements for the rest.

But I'll wait for a new series.  Thanks!

--b.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-23 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-22  2:55 [PATCH 0/7] Assorted nfsd patches for 2.6.37 NeilBrown
2010-09-22  2:55 ` [PATCH 1/7] sunrpc: fix race in new cache_wait code NeilBrown
2010-09-22 17:50   ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-09-23  3:00     ` Neil Brown
2010-09-23  3:25       ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-09-23 14:46         ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2010-10-01 23:09           ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-10-02  0:12             ` Neil Brown
2010-09-22  2:55 ` [PATCH 2/7] sunrpc/cache: fix recent breakage of cache_clean_deferred NeilBrown
     [not found]   ` <20100922025506.31745.74964.stgit-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2010-09-22 18:27     ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-09-22  2:55 ` [PATCH 4/7] sunrpc/cache: centralise handling of size limit on deferred list NeilBrown
     [not found]   ` <20100922025507.31745.61919.stgit-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2010-09-22 18:31     ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-09-23  3:02       ` Neil Brown
2010-09-22  2:55 ` [PATCH 3/7] sunrpc/cache: change deferred-request hash table to use hlist NeilBrown
2010-09-22  2:59   ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-09-22  4:51     ` Neil Brown
2010-09-22  2:55 ` [PATCH 5/7] sunrpc/cache: allow thread manager more control of whether threads can wait for upcalls NeilBrown
2010-09-22 18:36   ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-09-23  3:23     ` Neil Brown
2010-09-22  2:55 ` [PATCH 6/7] nfsd: formally deprecate legacy nfsd syscall interface NeilBrown
     [not found]   ` <20100922025507.31745.57024.stgit-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2010-09-22  3:10     ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-09-22  2:55 ` [PATCH 7/7] nfsd: allow deprecated interface to be compiled out NeilBrown

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