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SubjectRe: SLUB defrag pull request?
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On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > In many cases, yes it seems to. And some of the approaches even if
> > they work now seem like they *might* cause problematic constraints
> > in the design... Have Al and Christoph reviewed the dentry and inode
> > patches?
>
> This d_invalidate() looks suspicious to me:

And the things kick_inodes() does without any sort of locking look
even more dangerous.

It should be the other way round: first make sure nothing is
referencing the inode, and _then_ start cleaning it up with
appropriate locks held. See prune_icache().

Miklos


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