Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Jun 2003 06:13:05 -0700 | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | Subject | Re: Always passing mm and vma down (was: [RFC][PATCH] Convert do_no_page() to a hook to avoid DFS race) |
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On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 10:32:50AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > 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 ?
At least one soon will be.
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