Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264806AbTFLQRD (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2003 12:17:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264881AbTFLQRD (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2003 12:17:03 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:21731 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264806AbTFLQRC (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2003 12:17:02 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 17:30:45 +0100 From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk To: Dipankar Sarma Cc: Trond Myklebust , John M Flinchbaugh , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Maneesh Soni Subject: Re: 2.5.70-bk16: nfs crash Message-ID: <20030612163045.GK6754@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <20030612125630.GA19842@butterfly.hjsoft.com> <20030612135254.GA2482@in.ibm.com> <16104.40370.828325.379995@charged.uio.no> <20030612155345.GB1438@in.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030612155345.GB1438@in.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 616 Lines: 15 On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 09:23:45PM +0530, Dipankar Sarma wrote: > Lockfree d_lookup() gives us significant benefits in larger > SMP machines. I wonder if they outweight debugging time wasted after any change... Note that for vfsmounts proposed RCU patch had been utterly useless - practically all improvements had been from separate lock for vfsmounts (see akpm tree). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/