Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:29:00 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 4/10] vfs: global namespace semaphore |
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Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 23:51, Al Viro wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 11:26:19AM -0700, Ram wrote: > > > This patch removes the per-namespace semaphore in favor of a global > > > semaphore. This can have an effect on namespace scalability. > > > > ... and #2 uses that semaphore... > > Patch #2, uses the global semaphore. Yes that patch would'nt have > compiled without patch #4, because the global semaphore got defined only > in the patch #4. >
Ordinarily that doesn't matter much. But if you're doing a `git bisect' and you happen to land in the middle of a patch series at a point where it doesn't compile or run, it can ruin your whole day.
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