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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: neilb@suse.de, balbir@in.ibm.com, akpm@osdl.org,
	aviro@redhat.com, jblunck@suse.de, dev@openvz.org, olh@suse.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix dcache race during umount
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:27:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <11117.1150986477@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15603.1150978967@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>

David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:

> I'd like to propose an alternative to your patch to fix the dcache race
> between unmounting a filesystem and the memory shrinker.
> 
> In my patch, generic_shutdown_super() is made to call shrink_dcache_sb()
> instead of shrink_dcache_anon(), and the latter function is discarded
> completely since it's no longer used.

On the other hand, I can make my patch just alter the effect of yours.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-22 14:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-22 12:22 [PATCH] Fix dcache race during umount David Howells
2006-06-22 14:27 ` David Howells [this message]
2006-06-22 16:08 ` Jan Blunck
2006-06-22 16:44   ` Jan Blunck
2006-06-23 13:28 ` Jan Blunck
2006-06-24  5:23 ` Neil Brown
2006-06-24  9:16   ` David Howells
2006-06-24 13:33   ` [PATCH] Destroy the dentries contributed by a superblock on unmounting David Howells
2006-06-25  6:48     ` Neil Brown
2006-06-25 16:02       ` David Howells
2006-06-25 16:30         ` Nick Piggin
2006-06-26  6:05         ` Neil Brown
2006-06-26 11:21           ` David Howells
2006-06-27  0:53             ` Neil Brown
2006-06-27 10:17             ` David Howells
2006-06-27 22:55               ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-27 23:18                 ` David Howells
     [not found] <20060404110351.27364.patches@notabene>
2006-04-04  1:05 ` [PATCH] Fix dcache race during umount NeilBrown
2006-04-04  5:11   ` Balbir Singh
     [not found] <20060403133804.27986.patches@notabene>
2006-04-03  3:40 ` NeilBrown
2006-04-03 18:12   ` Balbir Singh
2006-04-04  0:59     ` Neil Brown
2006-04-04  5:02       ` Balbir Singh

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