Re: VFS nr_files accounting

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto]

Dipankar Sarma wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 11:00:30PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
>> From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 17:53:14 +1100
>>
>>> The other thing that is typically done for regressions like these
>>> close to release time is to revert the offending changes. I figure
>>> that in this case, such an option is probably _more_ risky.
>> Especially since we're talking about something that went into
>> 2.6.14
> 
> Without a doubt, yes. Waaaay more risky. Compared to that the
> rcu-batch-tuning and fix-file-counting are a cakewalk. It would
> however be nice if Christoph or Viro gives the file counting
> patch a look-over just so that I didn't break any sysctl
> stuff.
> 
> Thanks
> Dipankar

Considering the impact of the problem, wouldn't be wise to push
the fix to -stable as well?

Thanks
Fabio

-- 
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
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