Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264005AbTH1Nny (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 09:43:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264019AbTH1Nny (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 09:43:54 -0400 Received: from mail3.ithnet.com ([217.64.64.7]:3767 "HELO heather-ng.ithnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264005AbTH1Nnx (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 09:43:53 -0400 X-Sender-Authentication: SMTPafterPOP by from 217.64.64.14 Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 15:43:50 +0200 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: Tejun Huh Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] dcache statistics race in 2.4 Message-Id: <20030828154350.4239fb19.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20030828022748.GA20792@atj.dyndns.org> References: <20030828022748.GA20792@atj.dyndns.org> Organization: ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 547 Lines: 17 On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 11:27:49 +0900 Tejun Huh wrote: > Hello, > > In fs/dcache.c, dentry_stat.nr_dentry is not protected by anything > and on a busy SMP machine, after a while, the count goes wild. Can you shortly describe what user experiences in this case? Regards, Stephan - 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/