Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932224AbVJQJa7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2005 05:30:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932227AbVJQJa7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2005 05:30:59 -0400 Received: from gw1.cosmosbay.com ([62.23.185.226]:34458 "EHLO gw1.cosmosbay.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932224AbVJQJa6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2005 05:30:58 -0400 Message-ID: <43536E01.8030203@cosmosbay.com> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 11:25:21 +0200 From: Eric Dumazet User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: fr, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig CC: dipankar@in.ibm.com, Jean Delvare , torvalds@osdl.org, Serge Belyshev , LKML , Andrew Morton , Manfred Spraul Subject: Re: VFS: file-max limit 50044 reached References: <20051017084609.GA6257@in.ibm.com> <43536A6C.102@cosmosbay.com> <20051017091422.GA18882@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20051017091422.GA18882@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.6 (gw1.cosmosbay.com [172.16.8.80]); Mon, 17 Oct 2005 11:25:22 +0200 (CEST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1106 Lines: 32 Christoph Hellwig a ?crit : > On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 11:10:04AM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote: > >>Dont take me wrong : I really *need* the file RCU stuff added in 2.6.14. > > > how so? and why should we care? I'd rather see a 2.6.14 soon with > the changes backed out so we can have a proper release that more or > less sticks to the release schedule we agreed on at kernel summit. > You'll have four weeks time to sort out the issue afterwards. > - Christoph, You can try to hide the forest by killing some trees. Are you sure that RCU 'file structs' is the only problem lying around ? For instance, I think other RCU freeing problem are dormant (see maxbatch=10 and think about the number of routes a busy router (or DOS attack) can handle... Of course, a 'test program' is more difficult to write than a while (1) close(open("/dev/null", 3)); Eric - 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/