On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:28:10 -0400 "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > The following patch has been sitting in the ext4 patch queue for about > six weeks. It was there it was a suspected cause for block allocation > bug. As I recall, it we found the true root cause since then, but this > has stuck around since it's a potential problem. Andrew has expressed > concerns that this patch might have performance impacts. Performace impacts I guess we'll just have to put up with. iirc I was thinking that this implementation should be pushed down to a kernel-wide atomic64_t and then the percpu_counters would just use that type. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
