From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
mgorman@suse.de, gregkh@suse.de, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] shrink_dcache_parent() deadlock
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:04:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120110180421.GC23916@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJfpegszrDO112d9A3PLsMY1+NnRpqFoLzODABnMq_VZq=DWFw@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 05:22:22PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> I think prune_dcache_sb() doesn't need this logic (although it
> wouldn't hurt either) because that one is called from the slab
> shrinkers and those are protected from being run multiple times in
> parallel, I hope.
Eh... We already have too much convoluted logics in there, so
let's keep it as non-subtle as possible.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-10 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-09 10:58 [RFC PATCH] shrink_dcache_parent() deadlock Miklos Szeredi
2012-01-09 16:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-09 17:05 ` Miklos Szeredi
2012-01-09 17:16 ` Greg KH
2012-01-09 17:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-01-09 17:30 ` Al Viro
2012-01-09 18:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-09 18:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-09 19:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-01-09 19:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-09 20:59 ` Dave Chinner
2012-01-09 21:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-10 1:34 ` Al Viro
2012-01-10 2:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-10 10:05 ` Miklos Szeredi
2012-01-10 16:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-10 16:15 ` Al Viro
2012-01-10 16:22 ` Miklos Szeredi
2012-01-10 16:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-10 16:50 ` Miklos Szeredi
2012-01-10 18:04 ` Al Viro [this message]
2012-01-10 21:52 ` Dave Chinner
2012-01-09 21:26 ` Al Viro
2012-01-09 17:27 ` Al Viro
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