Subject: Re: 2.6.10-mm3 scaling problem with inotify
From: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
To: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Cc: John Hawkes <hawkes@tomahawk.engr.sgi.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:31:23 -0500
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On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 19:49 -0500, Robert Love wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 15:56 -0800, John Hawkes wrote:
> [snip]
> 
> I am open to other ideas, too, but I don't see any nice shortcuts like
> what we can do in inotify_inode_queue_event().
> 
> (Other) John?  Any ideas?

No, you covered things well. This code was really just a straight copy
of the dnotify code. Rob cleaned it up at some point, giving us what we
have today. The only fix I can think of is the one suggested by Rob --
copying the dnotify code again.

-- 
John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
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