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From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>,
	John M Flinchbaugh <glynis@butterfly.hjsoft.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: 2.5.70-bk16: nfs crash
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 17:30:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030612163045.GK6754@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030612155345.GB1438@in.ibm.com>

On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 09:23:45PM +0530, Dipankar Sarma wrote:

> Lockfree d_lookup() gives us significant benefits in larger
> SMP machines.

I wonder if they outweight debugging time wasted after any change...

Note that for vfsmounts proposed RCU patch had been utterly useless -
practically all improvements had been from separate lock for vfsmounts
(see akpm tree).

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-06-12 16:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-12 12:56 2.5.70-bk16: nfs crash John M Flinchbaugh
2003-06-12 13:52 ` Dipankar Sarma
2003-06-12 15:33   ` Dipankar Sarma
2003-06-12 15:35   ` Trond Myklebust
2003-06-12 15:53     ` Dipankar Sarma
2003-06-12 16:26       ` Trond Myklebust
2003-06-12 16:49         ` Linus Torvalds
2003-06-12 16:55           ` Linus Torvalds
2003-06-12 19:53         ` Dipankar Sarma
2003-06-13  5:24           ` Trond Myklebust
2003-06-13  5:50             ` Dipankar Sarma
2003-06-13  6:13               ` Trond Myklebust
2003-06-13  6:54                 ` Dipankar Sarma
2003-06-13  6:06             ` Dipankar Sarma
2003-06-12 16:30       ` viro [this message]
2003-06-12 16:55         ` Dipankar Sarma
2003-06-12 15:49   ` Linus Torvalds
2003-06-12 16:05     ` Dipankar Sarma
2003-06-12 16:18     ` Linus Torvalds
2003-06-12 16:35       ` Dipankar Sarma
2003-06-12 16:47         ` Linus Torvalds
2003-06-13 12:48       ` Maneesh Soni

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