Re: [RFC][Attention] dcache threading - interface changes.

2000-05-22 Thread Assar Westerlund
Hi, Al. Thanks for your answers and for adding functions to the VFS that do what we've been doing ourselves. :-) Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > b) ->d_delete() becoming non-blocking. > > > > Safe on that (we do not do anything in d_delete). > > See #if 0'd code in xfs_d_delet

Re: [prepatch] Directory Notification

2000-05-22 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 04:27:29PM +, Ton Hospel wrote: > > > > It delivers a realtime signal to tasks which have requested it. The task > > can then call fstat to find out what changed. > > > A poll() notification mechanism should be at least as useful for e.g. > GUI's who generally p

PATCH: Rewrite of truncate_inode_pages (take 3)

2000-05-22 Thread Juan J. Quintela
Hi I have reworte the function truncate_inode_pages. The version in vanilla pre9-3 does busy waiting in the partial page, with this version the locking for the partial page and from the rest of the pages is the same. This make that we have less special ca

Re: [prepatch] Directory Notification

2000-05-22 Thread Matthew Kirkwood
On Sun, 21 May 2000, Richard Gooch wrote: > + if (!error) > + if (ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE) > + vfs_poll_notify (inode, POLLWRINODE); > + if (ia_valid & ~ATTR_SIZE) > + vfs_poll_notify (inode, POLLCHANGEDINODE); Oops. 'tis is very