Re: [PATCH 2.4] fix dcache nr_dentry race

[Marcelo Tosatti]

This one should have been applied long time ago, as Marc noted.

Thanks Leandro, committed to 2.4 BK repo.

On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 04:50:57AM -0300, Leandro Santi wrote:
> 
> Hi Marcelo,
> 
> The dentry_stat.nr_dentry counter isn't being properly protected against
> concurrent access. We've been observing a drift of about 8000 units per
> day on some large MP Maildir++ mailstore nodes.
> 
> The following (trivial) patch is pretty much a backport from 2.6.
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