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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2011-04-11 13:44:25 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2011-04-11 13:44:25 -0700 |
| commit | 1c01a80cfec6f806246f31ff2680cd3639b30e67 (patch) | |
| tree | 0b554aad2ec1da71ecf6339d4ba51617bfe1dc3c /Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.txt | |
| parent | c44d79950b2daa1025e62eede73e4e4a274d1ef3 (diff) | |
| parent | 4a9f65f6304a00f6473e83b19c1e83caa1e42530 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/net/smsc911x.c
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.txt index eb59c8b44be..3571667c710 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.txt @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Path walking overview A name string specifies a start (root directory, cwd, fd-relative) and a sequence of elements (directory entry names), which together refer to a path in the namespace. A path is represented as a (dentry, vfsmount) tuple. The name -elements are sub-strings, seperated by '/'. +elements are sub-strings, separated by '/'. Name lookups will want to find a particular path that a name string refers to (usually the final element, or parent of final element). This is done by taking @@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ vfstest 24185492 4945 708725(2.9%) 1076136(4.4%) 0 2651 What this shows is that failed rcu-walk lookups, ie. ones that are restarted entirely with ref-walk, are quite rare. Even the "vfstest" case which -specifically has concurrent renames/mkdir/rmdir/ creat/unlink/etc to excercise +specifically has concurrent renames/mkdir/rmdir/ creat/unlink/etc to exercise such races is not showing a huge amount of restarts. Dropping from rcu-walk to ref-walk mean that we have encountered a dentry where |