From: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, paulmck@us.ibm.com, dada1@cosmosbay.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] fix file counting
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:14:54 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060218104454.GR29846@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060218021022.6b5fe1ba.akpm@osdl.org>
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 02:10:22AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 01:45:29AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> Look closer ;)
>
> if (get_nr_files() >= files_stat.max_files && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) {
> /*
> * percpu_counters are inaccurate. Do an expensive check before
> * we go and fail.
> */
> if (percpu_counter_sum(&nr_files) >= files_stat.max_files)
> goto over;
> }
Ah, that check is not relevant for priviledged users anyway. That
means I should just continue doing where my mind is at the moment - running
the weekend errands :) And not look at code.
Thanks
Dipankar
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-18 10:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-17 15:41 [PATCH 0/2] RCU updates Dipankar Sarma
2006-02-17 15:43 ` [PATCH 1/2] rcu batch tuning Dipankar Sarma
2006-02-17 15:46 ` [PATCH 2/2] fix file counting Dipankar Sarma
2006-02-18 9:04 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-18 9:25 ` Dipankar Sarma
2006-02-18 9:45 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-18 10:06 ` Dipankar Sarma
2006-02-18 10:10 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-18 10:44 ` Dipankar Sarma [this message]
2006-02-18 12:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-18 12:31 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-20 22:36 ` [2.6 patch] make UNIX a bool Adrian Bunk
2006-02-17 20:33 ` [PATCH 1/2] rcu batch tuning Dipankar Sarma
2006-02-18 8:45 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-18 9:15 ` Dipankar Sarma
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-01-26 18:40 [patch 0/2] RCU: fix various latency/oom issues Dipankar Sarma
2006-01-26 18:41 ` [patch 1/2] rcu batch tuning Dipankar Sarma
2006-01-26 18:42 ` [patch 2/2] fix file counting Dipankar Sarma
2006-01-26 20:15 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-01-27 22:54 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-27 23:14 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-01-27 23:28 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-28 18:42 ` Dipankar Sarma
2006-01-28 18:51 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-28 19:10 ` Dipankar Sarma
2006-01-30 17:00 ` Dipankar Sarma
2006-01-31 10:33 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-01-31 20:19 ` Dipankar Sarma
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