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From: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@serpentine.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
	rusty@rustcorp.com.au, dipankar@in.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kmalloc_percpu
Date: 06 May 2003 09:05:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1052237149.25671.1.camel@serpentine.internal.keyresearch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030505235758.25f769fc.akpm@digeo.com>

On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 23:57, Andrew Morton wrote:

> The disk_stats structure has an "in flight" member.  If we don't have proper
> locking around that, disks will appear to have -3 requests in flight for all
> time, which would look a tad odd.

For what it's worth, the disk stats patch that vendors have been
shipping forever with 2.4 (and that Christoph pushed into 2.4.20) has
this problem, so at least people will be used to it.

	<b


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-05-06 15:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-05  8:08 [PATCH] kmalloc_percpu Rusty Russell
2003-05-05  8:47 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-06  0:47   ` Rusty Russell
2003-05-06  1:52     ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-06  2:11       ` David S. Miller
2003-05-06  4:08         ` Rusty Russell
2003-05-06  3:40           ` David S. Miller
2003-05-06  5:02             ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-06  4:16               ` David S. Miller
2003-05-06  5:48                 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-06  5:35                   ` David S. Miller
2003-05-06  6:55                     ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-06  5:57                       ` David S. Miller
2003-05-06  7:22                         ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-06  6:15                           ` David S. Miller
2003-05-06  7:34                             ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-06  8:42                               ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-06 14:38                               ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-05-06  7:20                       ` Dipankar Sarma
2003-05-06  8:28                       ` Rusty Russell
2003-05-06  8:47                         ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-07  1:57                           ` Rusty Russell
2003-05-07  2:41                             ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-07  4:03                               ` Paul Mackerras
2003-05-07  4:22                                 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-07  4:56                                   ` Paul Mackerras
2003-05-07  5:19                                     ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-07  4:10                                       ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-05-07 12:13                                         ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-07  4:15                               ` Rusty Russell
2003-05-07  5:37                             ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-08  0:53                               ` Rusty Russell
2003-05-06 14:41                         ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-05-06  6:42                   ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-06  5:39                     ` David S. Miller
2003-05-06  6:57                       ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-06  7:25                         ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-06 10:41                           ` Ingo Oeser
2003-05-06 16:05                         ` Bryan O'Sullivan [this message]
2003-05-06  8:06               ` Rusty Russell
2003-05-06  5:03             ` Dipankar Sarma
2003-05-06  4:28           ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-06  3:37             ` David S. Miller
2003-05-06  4:11       ` Rusty Russell
2003-05-06  5:07   ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2003-05-06  8:03     ` Rusty Russell
2003-05-06  9:23       ` David S. Miller
2003-05-06  9:34       ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2003-05-06  9:38         ` Dipankar Sarma
2003-05-07  2:14         ` Rusty Russell
2003-05-07  5:51 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2003-05-07  6:16   ` Rusty Russell
2003-05-08  7:42     ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2003-05-08  7:47       ` Rusty Russell
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-10-31 16:06 [patch] kmalloc_percpu Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2002-11-01  8:33 ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-05 16:00   ` Dipankar Sarma

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