Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Always passing mm and vma down (was: [RFC][PATCH] Convert do_no_page() to a hook to avoid DFS race) | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | 02 Jun 2003 10:32:50 +0200 |
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On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 22:00, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > The immediate motivation is to avoid the race with zap_page_range() > when another node writes to the corresponding portion of the file, > similar to the situation with vmtruncate(). The thought was to > leverage locking within the distributed filesystem, but if the > race is solved locally, then, as you say, perhaps this is not > necessary.
is said distributed filesystem open source by chance ? [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |