On Fri, 8 Jun 2001 09:17:05 -0400 (EDT)
Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> What the reason to protect inode->i_op->lookup by lock_kernel?
AV> How about "lots of filesystems that exepct BKL to be there when
AV> directory methods are called"?
1) there is down(...). Not enough?
2) why do not let fs to make it inside lookup method? It's simple, imho
For some application it's really bottleneck, imho. And next question:
why do not use rwsem for VFS?
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poka, lexa
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