From: Hanna Linder Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fastwalk: reduce cacheline bouncing of d_count (Changelog@1.1024.1.11) Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 11:19:40 -0700 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <38440000.1057688380@w-hlinder> 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><27230000.1057686164@w-hlinder> Reply-To: Hanna Linder Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Hanna Linder , Matthew Wilcox , Alan Cox , Marcelo Tosatti , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux FSdevel , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk Return-path: Received: from e3.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.103]:9408 "EHLO e3.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264937AbTGHSEr (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 14:04:47 -0400 To: Trond Myklebust In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org --On Tuesday, July 08, 2003 08:10:10 PM +0200 Trond Myklebust wrote: >>>>>> " " == Hanna Linder writes: > > > The change Trond pointed out was added by Al Viro > > after fastwalk was included in 2.5.11 which I backported. > > IIRC, Al vetoed the NFS cto change that went into 2.4.x because he > claimed he was planning on providing an alternative fix that would > better fit the unionfs. > As that apparently won't materialize in 2.6.x, I'm in any case > planning on presenting the open(".") patch (or some variant of it) to > Linus. Then I apologize for my bad memory. I dont remember that thread. This fastwalk stuff was originally written over a year ago. Please push your bugfix as you know the NFS area much better than I do. Thanks. Hanna