Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:10:23 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Jeff Wheelhouse <freebsd-hackers@wheelhouse.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Major SMP problems with lstat/namei Message-ID: <200809241410.23238.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <B7B44FFC-4D5A-40C5-A8F4-8389135401FC@wheelhouse.org> References: <8185F68B-C443-4891-BEC2-5E3D453DDC93@wheelhouse.org> <200809241212.09920.jhb@freebsd.org> <B7B44FFC-4D5A-40C5-A8F4-8389135401FC@wheelhouse.org>
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On Wednesday 24 September 2008 01:47:32 pm Jeff Wheelhouse wrote: > > On Sep 24, 2008, at 12:12 PM, John Baldwin wrote: > > Shared lookups only work on the NFS client in 6.x. I'm about to > > turn them on > > for UFS in HEAD (8.x) and will backport the needed fixes to 7.x > > after 7.1 > > (too risky to merge to 7.x this close to a release). > > Testers available, when you get to that. :-) > > > So lookup_shared=1 > > isn't going to really help on 6.x unless you are doing it all over > > NFS. You > > also want to backport my fix to cache_enter() before using > > lookup_shared at > > all: > > Since it sounds like 6.x is a dead end, we'll focus on 7.x, provided > we can get it to be stable for us. Yes. > Having never used svn, I do need to figure out how to pull the > specific patches you referenced, but I'm sure that's not an > unclimbable mountain. :-) You can still use cvs to pull the revisions. All those e-mail msg's have the CVS revisions in them, too. -- John Baldwin
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