Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fastwalk: reduce cacheline bouncing of d_count () | From | Trond Myklebust <> | Date | 08 Jul 2003 20:10:10 +0200 |
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>>>>> " " == Hanna Linder <hannal@us.ibm.com> writes:
> The change Trond pointed out was added by Al Viro > after fastwalk was included in 2.5.11 which I backported.
IIRC, Al vetoed the NFS cto change that went into 2.4.x because he claimed he was planning on providing an alternative fix that would better fit the unionfs. As that apparently won't materialize in 2.6.x, I'm in any case planning on presenting the open(".") patch (or some variant of it) to Linus.
That said, just backing a bugfix out of a stable kernel without providing an alternative solution should only be done in those cases where keeping it would cause a worse problem. For instance if the fix is a security issue...
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