Re: [PATCH 2.4] fix dcache nr_dentry race

[Marc-Christian Petersen]

On Sunday 19 September 2004 09:50, Leandro Santi wrote:

Hi Leandro,

> The dentry_stat.nr_dentry counter isn't being properly protected against
> concurrent access. We've been observing a drift of about 8000 units per
> day on some large MP Maildir++ mailstore nodes.
> The following (trivial) patch is pretty much a backport from 2.6.

Almost the same fix was posted in August 2003.

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=106203778320540&w=2


ciao, Marc
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