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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: paulmck@us.ibm.com
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@digeo.com
Subject: Re: Always passing mm and vma down (was: [RFC][PATCH] Convert do_no_page() to a hook to avoid DFS race)
Date: 02 Jun 2003 10:32:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1054542770.5187.1.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030601200056.GA1471@us.ibm.com>

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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 ?

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-02  8:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-30 23:41 [RFC][PATCH] Convert do_no_page() to a hook to avoid DFS race Paul E. McKenney
2003-05-31  1:00 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-31 23:51   ` Paul E. McKenney
2003-08-09 18:50     ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-08-10 12:06       ` Paul E. McKenney
2003-06-01 19:33   ` Paul E. McKenney
2003-05-31  8:46 ` Always passing mm and vma down (was: [RFC][PATCH] Convert do_no_page() to a hook to avoid DFS race) Ingo Oeser
2003-05-31 23:48   ` Paul E. McKenney
2003-06-01 12:22     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-06-01 20:00       ` Paul E. McKenney
2003-06-02  8:32         ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2003-06-02 13:13           ` Paul E. McKenney
2003-06-04 10:38         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-06-07 16:29           ` Paul E. McKenney

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