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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au
Cc: trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, nfs@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fix knfsd readahead cache in 2.4.15
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 15:53:47 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011126.155347.45872112.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15362.53694.192797.275363@esther.cse.unsw.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <15362.18626.303009.379772@charged.uio.no> <15362.53694.192797.275363@esther.cse.unsw.edu.au>

   From: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
   Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:35:26 +1100 (EST)
   
   This is definately a bug, but I don't think it is quite as dramatic as
   you suggest.
   
   The "struct raparms" that ra points to will almost always be the last
   one on the list, so ra->p_next will almost always be NULL anyway.
   Nevertheless, it is a bug and your fix looks good.

There are other problems remaining, this function is a logical
mess.

1) depth is computed in the loop, but thrown away.
   It is basically reassigned to a constant before
   being used to index the statistics it is for.

2) raparm_cache is reassigned, and since the ra param list is
   NULL terminated this can make the list shorter and shorter
   and shorter until it is one entry deep.

Yikes :)

  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-26 23:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-26 13:50 Fix knfsd readahead cache in 2.4.15 Trond Myklebust
2001-11-26 23:35 ` Neil Brown
2001-11-26 23:53   ` David S. Miller [this message]
2001-11-27  0:05     ` David S. Miller
2001-11-27  0:29     ` Neil Brown
2001-11-27  0:33       ` David S. Miller
2001-11-27  1:25     ` [NFS] " Benjamin LaHaise
2001-11-27 13:54       ` Trond Myklebust
2001-11-27 15:23         ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-11-27 15:44           ` Trond Myklebust
2001-11-28 21:03             ` Benjamin LaHaise
     [not found] <15362.18626.303009.379772@charged.uio.no.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found] ` <15362.53694.192797.275363@esther.cse.unsw.edu.au.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found]   ` <20011126.155347.45872112.davem@redhat.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2001-11-27  7:16     ` Andi Kleen

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