Re: [PATCH] dcache statistics race in 2.4

[Tejun Huh]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 03:43:50PM +0200, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> 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?
> 

 Hello Stephan,

 Not much, just weird numbers in /proc/sys/fs/dentry-state.  isag may
show continuously increasing graph.  Only statistic is affected.

-- 
tejun

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