From: Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>
To: Steve Lord <lord@xfs.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: negative dentry_stat.nr_unused causes aggressive dcache pruning
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 10:01:18 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041208230118.GC4239@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41B77D54.4080909@xfs.org>
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 04:16:52PM -0600, Steve Lord wrote:
>
> I have seen this stat go negative (just from booting up a multi cpu box),
> and looking at the code, it is manipulated without locking in a number
> of places. I have only seen this in real life on a 2.4 kernel, but 2.6
> also looks vulnerable.
On early 2.6.x, a heavy streaming NFS load was a great way to trigger
this. I haven't seen it happen since
http://linus.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/cset@40b8cf606MV-gl6VpDyWKzzW1jaIJw
Greg.
--
Greg Banks, R&D Software Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group.
I don't speak for SGI.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-08 23:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-08 22:16 Steve Lord
2004-12-08 23:01 ` Greg Banks [this message]
2004-12-09 10:09 ` Andrew Morton
2004-12-09 16:33 ` Steve Lord
2004-12-09 20:54 ` Steve Lord
2004-12-09 21:19 ` Andrew Morton
2004-12-09 21:51 ` Steve Lord
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