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From: Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <fabbione@ubuntu.com>
To: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: VFS nr_files accounting
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:55:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <440D4A84.6090802@ubuntu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060307080922.GC5946@in.ibm.com>

Dipankar Sarma wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 11:00:30PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
>> From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
>> Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 17:53:14 +1100
>>
>>> The other thing that is typically done for regressions like these
>>> close to release time is to revert the offending changes. I figure
>>> that in this case, such an option is probably _more_ risky.
>> Especially since we're talking about something that went into
>> 2.6.14
> 
> Without a doubt, yes. Waaaay more risky. Compared to that the
> rcu-batch-tuning and fix-file-counting are a cakewalk. It would
> however be nice if Christoph or Viro gives the file counting
> patch a look-over just so that I didn't break any sysctl
> stuff.
> 
> Thanks
> Dipankar

Considering the impact of the problem, wouldn't be wise to push
the fix to -stable as well?

Thanks
Fabio

-- 
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-07  8:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-04 10:25 VFS nr_files accounting David S. Miller
2006-03-04 14:17 ` Dipankar Sarma
2006-03-04 22:22   ` David S. Miller
2006-03-04 22:28     ` David S. Miller
2006-03-04 22:32       ` David S. Miller
2006-03-05  7:05         ` Dipankar Sarma
2006-03-05  7:37           ` David S. Miller
2006-03-05 11:38             ` Dipankar Sarma
2006-03-06 20:39               ` David S. Miller
2006-03-07  6:41                 ` Dipankar Sarma
2006-03-07  6:47                   ` David S. Miller
2006-03-07  8:02                     ` Dipankar Sarma
2006-03-07  6:53                   ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-07  7:00                     ` David S. Miller
2006-03-07  8:09                       ` Dipankar Sarma
2006-03-07  8:55                         ` Fabio Massimo Di Nitto [this message]
2006-03-07  7:06                   ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-07 12:09                     ` Dipankar Sarma

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