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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"minchan.kim@gmail.com" <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
	cl@linux-foundation.org,
	"hugh.dickins" <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 6/8] mm: handle_speculative_fault()
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 15:40:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100105154047.GA18217@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1001050727400.3630@localhost.localdomain>

On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 07:34:02AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> The only other effects of delaying closing a file I can see are
> 
>  - the ETXTBUSY thing, but we don't need to delay _that_ part, so this may 
>    be a non-issue.
> 
>  - the actual freeing of the data on disk (ie people may expect that the 
>    last close really frees up the space on the filesystem). However, this 
>    is _such_ a subtle semantic thing that maybe nobody cares.

- a bunch of fs operations done from RCU callbacks.  Including severely
blocking ones.  As in "for minutes" in the most severe cases, and with
large numbers of objects involved.  Can get very unpleasant...

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-05 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 121+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-04 18:24 [RFC][PATCH 0/8] Speculative pagefault -v3 Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-04 18:24 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/8] mm: Remove pte reference from fault path Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-04 18:24 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/8] mm: Speculative pagefault infrastructure Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-04 18:24 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/8] mm: Add vma sequence count Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-04 18:24 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/8] mm: RCU free vmas Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-05  2:43   ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-05  8:28     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-05 16:05       ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-04 18:24 ` [RFC][PATCH 5/8] mm: Speculative pte_map_lock() Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-04 18:24 ` [RFC][PATCH 6/8] mm: handle_speculative_fault() Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-05  0:25   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-05  3:13     ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-05  8:17       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-05  8:57       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-05 15:34         ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-05 15:40           ` Al Viro [this message]
2010-01-05 16:10             ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-06 15:41               ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-05  9:37       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-05 23:35         ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-05  4:29     ` Minchan Kim
2010-01-05  4:43       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-05  5:10         ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-05  5:30           ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-05  7:39             ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-05 15:26               ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-05 16:14                 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-05 17:25                   ` Andi Kleen
2010-01-05 17:47                     ` Christoph Lameter
2010-01-05 18:00                       ` Andi Kleen
2010-01-05 17:55                     ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-05 18:13                       ` Christoph Lameter
2010-01-05 18:25                         ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-05 18:46                           ` Christoph Lameter
2010-01-05 18:56                             ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-05 19:15                               ` Christoph Lameter
2010-01-05 19:28                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-05 18:55                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-05 19:08                             ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-05 19:23                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-05 20:29                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-05 20:46                             ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-05 21:00                               ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-05 23:29                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-06  0:22                 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-06  1:37                   ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-06  2:52                     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-06  3:27                       ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-06  3:56                         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-06  4:20                           ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-06  7:06                             ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-06  7:49                               ` Minchan Kim
2010-01-06  9:39                               ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-07  1:00                                 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-08 16:53                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-08 17:22                               ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-08 17:43                                 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-01-08 17:52                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-08 18:33                                     ` Christoph Lameter
2010-01-08 18:46                                   ` Andi Kleen
2010-01-08 18:56                                     ` Christoph Lameter
2010-01-08 19:10                                       ` Andi Kleen
2010-01-08 19:11                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-08 19:28                                         ` Andi Kleen
2010-01-08 19:39                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-08 19:42                                             ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-08 21:36                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-08 21:46                                     ` Christoph Lameter
2010-01-08 22:43                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-08 22:43                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-09 14:47                               ` Ed Tomlinson
2010-01-10  5:27                                 ` Nitin Gupta
2010-01-05 15:14             ` Christoph Lameter
2010-01-05  8:18           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-05  6:00         ` Minchan Kim
2010-01-05  4:48       ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-05  6:09         ` Minchan Kim
2010-01-05  6:09           ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-05  6:24             ` Minchan Kim
2010-01-05  8:35           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-05 13:45   ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-01-05 14:15     ` Andi Kleen
2010-01-05 15:17     ` Christoph Lameter
2010-01-06  3:22       ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-01-07 16:11         ` Christoph Lameter
2010-01-07 16:19           ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-07 16:31             ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-07 16:34             ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-07 16:36             ` Christoph Lameter
2010-01-08  4:49               ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-01-08  5:00                 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-08 15:51                 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-01-09 15:55                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-01-07 17:22             ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-07 17:36               ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-07 17:49                 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-07 18:00                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-07 18:15                     ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-07 21:49                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-07 18:44                   ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-07 19:20                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-07 20:06                       ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-07 20:25                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-07 19:24                     ` Christoph Lameter
2010-01-07 20:08                       ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-07 20:13                         ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-07 21:44                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-07 22:33                       ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-08  0:23                         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-08  0:25                           ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-08  0:39                           ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-08  0:41                             ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-07 23:51                 ` Rik van Riel
2010-01-04 18:24 ` [RFC][PATCH 7/8] mm,x86: speculative pagefault support Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-04 18:24 ` [RFC][PATCH 8/8] mm: Optimize pte_map_lock() Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-04 21:41 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/8] Speculative pagefault -v3 Rik van Riel
2010-01-04 21:46   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-04 23:20     ` Rik van Riel
2010-01-04 21:59   ` Christoph Lameter
2010-01-05  0:28     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-05  2:26 ` Minchan Kim

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