Re: [patch] pagecache SMP-scalability patch [was: spinlock usage]

[Ingo Molnar]

On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:

> > (about lstat(): IMO lstat() should not call into the lowlevel FS code.)
>
> a) revalidation on network filesystems
> b) just about anything layered would win from ability to replace the
> normal stat() behaviour (think of UI/GID replacement, etc.)

sorry, i meant ext2fs - but this was fixed by your VFS scalability changes
already :-)

        Ingo

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