Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264854AbTGHR2I (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 13:28:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266937AbTGHR2I (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 13:28:08 -0400 Received: from e5.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.105]:13253 "EHLO e5.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264854AbTGHR2F (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 13:28:05 -0400 Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 10:42:44 -0700 From: Hanna Linder Reply-To: Hanna Linder To: Matthew Wilcox , Alan Cox , Marcelo Tosatti , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux FSdevel 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) Message-ID: <27230000.1057686164@w-hlinder> In-Reply-To: <20030708172028.GB1939@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <16138.53118.777914.828030@charged.uio.no> <1057673804.4357.27.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <16138.56467.342593.715679@charged.uio.no> <1057677613.4358.33.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030708164426.GB10004@www.13thfloor.at> <1057683213.5228.3.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030708170628.GA13593@www.13thfloor.at> <20030708172028.GB1939@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.2.1 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 955 Lines: 23 --On Tuesday, July 08, 2003 06:20:28 PM +0100 Matthew Wilcox 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 - 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/