it would be nice if people who investigate SMP locking issues in VFS would
also contribute their findings to the very nice document on VFS internals
that Neil Brown has written - he accepts patches gladly:
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/oss/linux-commentary/
Regards,
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Tigran A. Aivazian | http://www.sco.com
Escalations Research Group | tel: +44-(0)1923-813796
Santa Cruz Operation Ltd | http://www.ocston.org/~tigran
On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> > What needs to be done before the big kernel lock can moved in favor of
> > the finer-grained inode lock?
>
> knfsd cleanup. SMP-safe dcache. SMP-safe namei.c. And quite a bit of
> filesystem code.
>
>
