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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@googlemail.com>,
	David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysfs: Cache the last sysfs_dirent to improve readdir scalability v2
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 21:59:47 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100102055947.GA3428@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1001011501340.3630@localhost.localdomain>

On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 03:10:49PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> So I guess that's an "Ack", although I'd prefer it to get some more 
> testing and perhaps go through Greg's tree as sysfs patches usually go.
> 
> And by "testing" I mean both the "yes, this second version also breaks the 
> lockdep chain and avoids the warning", but also some kind of actual 
> testing of /sysfs itself. If there is any.

I'll queue this up in my tree on Monday to get it some testing.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-02  6:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-24 22:00 Linux 2.6.33-rc2 - Merry Christmas Linus Torvalds
2009-12-25 10:27 ` -tip: origin tree boot crash Ingo Molnar
2009-12-25 19:49   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-26 20:19     ` Len Brown
2009-12-26 20:17   ` Len Brown
2009-12-27  4:20     ` Len Brown
2009-12-28  9:44       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-12-28 12:01         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-12-28 15:02           ` Paul Rolland
2009-12-28 16:15             ` Paul Rolland
2009-12-28 16:53             ` Paul Rolland
2009-12-28 20:17               ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-30  6:14               ` Len Brown
2009-12-30  7:13                 ` Paul Rolland
2009-12-30  6:19               ` [PATCH] wmi: check find_guid() return value to prevent oops Len Brown
2009-12-30  6:21               ` [PATCH] dell-wmi: sys_init_module: 'dell_wmi'->init suspiciously returned 21, it should follow 0/-E convention Len Brown
2009-12-25 13:10 ` Linux 2.6.33-rc2 - Blank screen for Intel KMS Miguel Calleja
2009-12-29  9:50   ` Miguel Calleja
2009-12-29 14:01     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-12-25 20:00 ` Linux 2.6.33-rc2 - Merry Christmas Borislav Petkov
2009-12-25 21:50   ` Borislav Petkov
2009-12-26  6:00     ` Jesse Barnes
2009-12-26  8:02       ` Borislav Petkov
2009-12-26  9:36 ` EHCI resume sysfs duplicates (was: Re: Linux 2.6.33-rc2 - Merry Christmas ...) Borislav Petkov
2009-12-26  9:45 ` drm_vm.c:drm_mmap: possible circular locking dependency detected " Borislav Petkov
2009-12-28  0:40   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-12-30 21:10     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-30 21:34       ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-12-30 22:03         ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-31  8:40           ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-12-31 19:04             ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-01 13:58               ` [PATCH] sysfs: Cache the last sysfs_dirent to improve readdir scalability Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-01 15:33                 ` Borislav Petkov
2010-01-01 18:56                 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-01 22:43                   ` [PATCH] sysfs: Cache the last sysfs_dirent to improve readdir scalability v2 Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-01 23:10                     ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-02  5:59                       ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-01-02 15:40                       ` Borislav Petkov
2010-01-01 15:16               ` drm_vm.c:drm_mmap: possible circular locking dependency detected (was: Re: Linux 2.6.33-rc2 - Merry Christmas ...) Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-02  2:59                 ` drm_vm.c:drm_mmap: possible circular locking dependency detected Tejun Heo
2010-01-02 21:37                   ` [PATCH] sysfs: Add lockdep annotations for the sysfs active reference Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-03  0:02                     ` Tejun Heo
2010-01-17 16:26                     ` Ming Lei
2010-01-17 17:18                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-17 18:03                         ` Dominik Brodowski
2010-01-02 21:49                   ` drm_vm.c:drm_mmap: possible circular locking dependency detected Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-03  0:32                     ` Tejun Heo
2010-01-03  2:06                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-03  5:01                         ` Tejun Heo
2010-01-03  5:38                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-03  6:05                             ` Tejun Heo
2010-01-03  7:47                       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-01-03 10:57                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-03 11:14                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-04 19:16                             ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-01-04 18:57                           ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-01-04 19:43                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-04 21:12                               ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-01-04 23:09                               ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-31  8:40           ` drm_vm.c:drm_mmap: possible circular locking dependency detected (was: Re: Linux 2.6.33-rc2 - Merry Christmas ...) Eric W. Biederman

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