Re: VFS nr_files accounting

[Dipankar Sarma]

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
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