On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The above (whitespace-damaged) patch may look trivial, but it is > *entirely* untested, and maybe my gut feel that the above is the right > way to solve the problem is just wrong. > > Al, any reactions? Hugh, does the above patch work for your > stress-test case? Or, indeed, at all? Hmm, it worked for my small test, including under memory pressure that was shrinking dentries. But my test is not the kind of stress-test that you clearly have, so that only means that it has not *really* obvious breakages. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html