From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Steve French <smfltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org,
darren@dmdtech.org
Subject: Re: cifs causes high system load avg, oopses when unloaded on 2.6.0-test11
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 17:02:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031217010248.GA31393@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1071609977.1806.27.camel@stevef95.austin.ibm.com>
At some point in the past, I wrote:
>> Hmm, this unload needs to hand back failure to module unload when it>>
>> can't nuke inodes etc. I'd suggest not using it as a module for the
>> time being.
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 03:26:17PM -0600, Steve French wrote:
> I don't see how I could pass failure back on module unload even if I
> could detect problems freeing the memory associated with cifs's inode
> cache - there is no place for return code info - see the caller ie the
> call to mod->exit() in sys_delete_module (about line 735 of
> kernel/module.c)
Right, the facility isn't there. Maybe making the thing not-unloadable
would be the best option for the time being.
-- wli
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-16 21:26 cifs causes high system load avg, oopses when unloaded on 2.6.0-test11 Steve French
2003-12-17 1:02 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
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2003-12-11 6:42 Darren Dupre
2003-12-11 6:55 ` William Lee Irwin III
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