Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 06:13:05 -0700
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@digeo.com,
       pmckenne@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: Always passing mm and vma down (was: [RFC][PATCH] Convert do_no_page() to a hook to avoid DFS race)
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On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 10:32:50AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 22:00, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > The immediate motivation is to avoid the race with zap_page_range()
> > when another node writes to the corresponding portion of the file,
> > similar to the situation with vmtruncate().  The thought was to
> > leverage locking within the distributed filesystem, but if the
> > race is solved locally, then, as you say, perhaps this is not 
> > necessary.
> 
> is said distributed filesystem open source by chance ?

At least one soon will be.

					Thanx, Paul
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