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2001 Apr 20
1
Just stirring the waters...
Hi, now that Ingo+redhat have discovered the cause
of the ext2 corruption under heavy load of 2.4.x
a couple of -preX patches ago (BTW ext2/3 gurus - what is the
difference between bforget() and brelse() - I'm a bit too dense
to understand the explanation given in the -pre patch?)
I wonder whether you folks are still finding
heavy load corruption problems for 2.4?
[My production servers are
2011 Jun 24
10
[PATCH 0/9] remove i_alloc_sem V2
i_alloc_sem has always been a bit of an odd "lock". It''s the only remaining
rw_semaphore that can be released by a different thread than the one that
locked it, and it''s use case in the core direct I/O code is more like a
counter given that the writers already have external serialization.
This series removes it in favour of a simpler counter scheme, thus getting
rid