From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
hannal@us.ibm.com,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux FSdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fastwalk: reduce cacheline bouncing of d_count (Changelog@1.1024.1.11)
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 18:20:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030708172028.GB1939@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030708170628.GA13593@www.13thfloor.at>
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 07:06:28PM +0200, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> every change (if it's not a bugfix, and even those) bear
> a risk, what I like about the fastwalk patch is not the
exactly. 2.4 is not the place for cleanups that make the code easier
to read because those cleanups can introduce new bugs.
--
"It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or
victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead bodies.
Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?" -- Robert Fisk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-08 17:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-08 14:04 [PATCH] path_lookup for 2.4.20-pre4 (ChangeSet@1.587.10.71) Trond Myklebust
2003-07-08 14:16 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-08 15:00 ` [PATCH] Fastwalk: reduce cacheline bouncing of d_count (Changelog@1.1024.1.11) Trond Myklebust
2003-07-08 15:20 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-08 16:44 ` Herbert Poetzl
2003-07-08 16:53 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-08 17:06 ` Herbert Poetzl
2003-07-08 17:20 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2003-07-08 17:42 ` Hanna Linder
2003-07-08 18:10 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-07-08 18:19 ` Hanna Linder
2003-07-08 19:26 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-07-08 19:24 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-07-08 16:20 ` [PATCH] path_lookup for 2.4.20-pre4 (ChangeSet@1.587.10.71) Jan Harkes
2003-07-08 16:41 ` [PATCH] Fastwalk: reduce cacheline bouncing of d_count (Changelog@1.1024.1.11) Trond Myklebust
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