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From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Greg Banks <gnb@melbourne.sgi.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>,
	Nikita Danilov <Nikita@Namesys.COM>,
	linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	trond myklebust <trondmy@trondhjem.org>
Subject: Re: d_splice_alias() problem.
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 10:46:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040504094642.GL17014@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40973F7F.A9FA4F1@melbourne.sgi.com>

On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 05:00:15PM +1000, Greg Banks wrote:
 
> Ok, how about this...it's portable, and not racy, but may perturb the
> logic slightly by also taking dentries off the unused list in the case
> where they already had d_count>=1.  I'm not sure how significant that is.
> In any case this also passes my tests.
 
a) ask RCU folks to review - the current logics in dcache.c is extremely
brittle as it is.

b) after rereading that code, I _really_ don't like the crap with "hashed
but disconnected" nfsd is pulling off.  Neil, care to give detailed reasons
why you are doing that?

  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-04  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-23 13:02 d_splice_alias() problem Nikita Danilov
2004-04-23 15:40 ` Andreas Dilger
2004-04-23 16:20   ` Nikita Danilov
2004-04-23 23:49 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-26 12:45   ` Nikita Danilov
2004-04-30  4:54 ` Neil Brown
2004-04-30  7:50   ` Greg Banks
2004-04-30 13:28   ` Nikita Danilov
2004-05-03 23:46     ` Neil Brown
2004-05-03 12:02   ` Greg Banks
2004-05-03 23:28     ` Neil Brown
2004-05-04  0:05       ` Greg Banks
2004-05-04  7:00       ` Greg Banks
2004-05-04  9:46         ` viro [this message]
2004-05-04 10:21           ` Greg Banks
2004-05-05  0:11           ` Neil Brown
2004-05-10  3:03         ` Neil Brown
2004-05-10  4:50           ` Greg Banks
2004-05-10  3:27       ` Neil Brown
2004-05-10 11:28         ` Greg Banks
2004-05-13  5:58           ` Neil Brown
2004-05-13  7:15             ` Greg Banks

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