Re: 2.6.10-mm3 scaling problem with inotify

From: John McCutchan
Date: Thu Jan 13 2005 - 20:41:21 EST


On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 19:49 -0500, Robert Love wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 15:56 -0800, John Hawkes wrote:
> [snip]
>
> I am open to other ideas, too, but I don't see any nice shortcuts like
> what we can do in inotify_inode_queue_event().
>
> (Other) John? Any ideas?

No, you covered things well. This code was really just a straight copy
of the dnotify code. Rob cleaned it up at some point, giving us what we
have today. The only fix I can think of is the one suggested by Rob --
copying the dnotify code again.

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John McCutchan <ttb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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