From: Hanna Linder <hannal@us.ibm.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux FSdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: hannal@us.ibm.com, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fastwalk: reduce cacheline bouncing of d_count (Changelog@1.1024.1.11)
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 10:42:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <27230000.1057686164@w-hlinder> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030708172028.GB1939@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
--On Tuesday, July 08, 2003 06:20:28 PM +0100 Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
Im not going to fight too hard for this. If people want it removed
that is OK. I pushed it because dcache_rcu was not going to be
accepted and Fastwalk is a fair second to dcache_rcu. The change Trond
pointed out was added by Al Viro after fastwalk was included in 2.5.11
which I backported.
Hanna
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-08 17:28 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
2003-07-08 17:42 ` Hanna Linder [this message]
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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