From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264186AbTFBVq7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2003 17:46:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264188AbTFBVq7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2003 17:46:59 -0400 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.130.16]:41391 "EHLO pat.uio.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264186AbTFBVq6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2003 17:46:58 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16091.51200.292233.374385@charged.uio.no> Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 23:56:16 +0200 To: Ion Badulescu Cc: "Vivek Goyal" , , , , , , Subject: Re: [NFS] Disabling Symbolic Link Content Caching in NFS Client In-Reply-To: <200306022037.h52KbNVh012849@buggy.badula.org> References: <2BB7146B38D9CA40B215AB3DAAE24C080BA4F3@blr-m2-msg.wipro.com> <200306022037.h52KbNVh012849@buggy.badula.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.4 (patch 8) "Honest Recruiter" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no From: Trond Myklebust X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact postmaster@uio.no for more information X-UiO-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> " " == Ion Badulescu writes: > Replacing a couple of time_after() calls with time_after_eq() > calls fixes the issue, at least for hlfsd. BTW: the above does not suffice to eliminate all races. Two processes owned by different users may still end up waiting on the same call to nfs_symlink_filler() no matter how often you choose to update the metadata. Cheers, Trond