From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 17:57:56 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: 2.5.56-mm1 Message-ID: <20030111225756.GA13330@gtf.org> References: <200301111443.08527.akpm@digeo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200301111443.08527.akpm@digeo.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, viro@math.psu.edu List-ID: On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 02:43:08PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > - dcache-RCU. > > This was recently updated to fix a rename race. It's quite stable. I'm > not sure where we stand wrt merging it now. Al seems to have disappeared. I talked to him in person last week, and this was one of the topics of discussion. He seemed to think it was fundamentally unfixable. He proceed to explain why, and then explained the scheme he worked out to improve things. Unfortunately my memory cannot do justice to the details. Next time he explains it, I will write it down :) Sorry for so lame a data point :) Jeff -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/