linux-kernel - Re: [announce] vfs-scale git tree update

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Message-ID: <AANLkTimRnWmQgd25S2LjaWsGogCeiTWjK9HT25Uv9O38@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:22:05 +0100
From:	Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...glemail.com>
To:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	eparis@...hat.com, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Lennart Poettering <lennart@...ttering.net>
Subject: Re: [announce] vfs-scale git tree update

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk> wrote:
> Git tree is here:
>
>  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/npiggin/linux-npiggin.git
>
> Branch is:
>
>    vfs-scale-working
>
> Changes since last posting:
> * Fix for the cgroupfs crash (probably temporary until Al's fixes are
>  merged).
> * Fix a couple of bisectability bugs.
> * Fix a race in disconnected dentry alias handling causing NFS to explode
>  under load. Basically the patch to split dentry hash locks needs to
>  lock the s_anon list with a seperate lock, which it wasn't doing
>  properly in the d_move() code.
>
> Thanks to all testers.
>

[ CC Al Viro and Lennart Poettering ]

Thanks for fixing this so quickly, Nick.
I am looking forward to see Al's vfs work got merged into linux-next.

Here some feedback from IRC #systemd/freenode (21-Dec-2010, UTC+1):

[17:14:23] <mezcaler1> dileks: fun that we are able to trigger such problems
[17:14:46] <mezcaler1> dileks: seems systemd is definitely a good
"test case" already ;-)


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