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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: npiggin@suse.de
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [rfc][patch] dynamic resizing dentry hash using RCU
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 20:38:00 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070304.203800.36941074.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070305042724.GB19783@wotan.suse.de>

From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 05:27:24 +0100

> Sounds great, I would be happy to help review it. If we can create a
> bit of common infrastructure, the dcache conversion might become a bit
> more palatable and we could look at other things like the inode hash
> as well.

Absolutely, I'll run my patch by you once I have it ready.

> The other thing you'll have to be careful of when looking at doing
> an implementation, is that I think I forgot to use the RCU accessors
> (rcu_assign_pointer, rcu_dereference) when assigning and loading
> the new/old hash table pointers.

Thanks for the heads-up.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-05  4:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-23 15:37 Nick Piggin
2007-02-23 16:31 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-02-24  1:08   ` Nick Piggin
2007-02-23 17:25 ` Zach Brown
2007-02-24  1:26   ` Nick Piggin
2007-02-24  2:07     ` Nick Piggin
2007-02-24  1:31   ` Michael K. Edwards
2007-02-24  1:52     ` Nick Piggin
2007-02-24  4:07 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-02-24  5:15   ` Nick Piggin
2007-02-24  4:24 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-02-24  5:09   ` Nick Piggin
2007-02-24 22:56     ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-02-25  0:56       ` David Miller
2007-02-25  2:15         ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-02-25  6:21 ` Paul E. McKenney
2007-03-05  4:11 ` David Miller
2007-03-05  4:27   ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-05  4:38     ` David Miller [this message]
2007-03-05  4:42     ` Nick Piggin

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