Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752016AbWCGHAc (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Mar 2006 02:00:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752078AbWCGHAc (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Mar 2006 02:00:32 -0500 Received: from dsl027-180-168.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.168]:32474 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752016AbWCGHAb (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Mar 2006 02:00:31 -0500 Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 23:00:30 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20060306.230030.131765838.davem@davemloft.net> To: nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org, fabbione@ubuntu.com, akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: VFS nr_files accounting From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <440D2DDA.7040209@yahoo.com.au> References: <20060306.123904.35238417.davem@davemloft.net> <20060307064120.GA5946@in.ibm.com> <440D2DDA.7040209@yahoo.com.au> X-Mailer: Mew version 4.2.53 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) 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: 596 Lines: 14 From: Nick Piggin Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 17:53:14 +1100 > The other thing that is typically done for regressions like these > close to release time is to revert the offending changes. I figure > that in this case, such an option is probably _more_ risky. Especially since we're talking about something that went into 2.6.14 - 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/