Re: [PATCH] dcache statistics race in 2.4

From: Stephan von Krawczynski
Date: Thu Aug 28 2003 - 08:44:53 EST


On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 11:27:49 +0900
Tejun Huh <tejun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> In fs/dcache.c, dentry_stat.nr_dentry is not protected by anything
> and on a busy SMP machine, after a while, the count goes wild.

Can you shortly describe what user experiences in this case?

Regards,
Stephan
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