Re: Finegrained a/c/mtime was Re: Directory notification problem

Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
13 Oct 2001 18:12:51 +0200


In article <20011013172419.B20499@kushida.jlokier.co.uk>,
Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk> writes:
> Andi Kleen says we can ignore the risk; I disagree, as there are some
> applications that cannot be trusted if the risk is plausible, and it can
> be fixed easily.

You're misquoting me badly. I said we can ignore the risk that two
nanosecond resolution timestamps that get changed by two different cpus
with out-of-sync cycle counter on a smp system and which are fast enough
to free/aquire the inode lock in a smaller time than they're out of sync
(= giving two file changes with the same ns timestamp) can be ignored.
I implied on the systems that don't have a cycle counter and which use
jiffie resolution gettimeofday it can be also ignored, because they're
unlikely to be SMP and dying out too anyways.

-Andi

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