Re: Always passing mm and vma down (was: [RFC][PATCH] Convert

Arjan van de Ven (arjanv@redhat.com)
02 Jun 2003 10:32:50 +0200


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On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 22:00, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> The immediate motivation is to avoid the race with zap_page_range()
> when another node writes to the corresponding portion of the file,
> similar to the situation with vmtruncate(). The thought was to
> leverage locking within the distributed filesystem, but if the
> race is solved locally, then, as you say, perhaps this is not=20
> necessary.

is said distributed filesystem open source by chance ?

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