On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 05:11:53PM +0800, Liu Yuan wrote: > I am still not convinced to run away from RCU-based mechanism or data > structure.
I hope I have stated clearly enough that I don't want to "run away", I just don't think it's a very good fit. If we have a reall good argument for adding it, and have the house in order before adding these complexities it's all fine with me. > For the new patch set, it seems that 1) we can't avoid to share vnode > info between main and threads, and 2) get a difficult-to-use API: > grab/get/put It's a very simple refcount API, basically the simples way to manage object lifetimes. > 3) need to pass vnode_info everywhere and change internal > API a lot. It's not all that much of a change. In fact I'd like to do bigger changes eventually to pass proper objects down the cluster OP path instead of the current high number of individually passed arguments. -- sheepdog mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/sheepdog
