Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 08 Jul 2003 10:42:44 -0700 | From | Hanna Linder <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fastwalk: reduce cacheline bouncing of d_count () |
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--On Tuesday, July 08, 2003 06:20:28 PM +0100 Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 07:06:28PM +0200, Herbert Poetzl wrote: >> every change (if it's not a bugfix, and even those) bear >> a risk, what I like about the fastwalk patch is not the > > exactly. 2.4 is not the place for cleanups that make the code easier > to read because those cleanups can introduce new bugs. >
Im not going to fight too hard for this. If people want it removed that is OK. I pushed it because dcache_rcu was not going to be accepted and Fastwalk is a fair second to dcache_rcu. The change Trond pointed out was added by Al Viro after fastwalk was included in 2.5.11 which I backported.
Hanna
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