Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 00:10:31 +0700 (ALMST) From: Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Brent Verner <brent@rcfile.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Junior Kernel Hacker task: improve vnode->v_tag Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0109050003390.2317-100000@lion.butya.kz> In-Reply-To: <200109041343.f84DhO097646@vega.vega.com>
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On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > The places which inspect v_tag will have to be changed to use > > strcmp() then... > > I think that we can add a new vnode flag, say VCANLOCK, so that each > particular VFS can set it if it supports locking, which should allow > to remove pre-defined VFS list from the IS_LOCKING_VFS macro. I can > produce a patch if it sounds reasonably. I'm not sure if this a right thing to do. Under SMPng each filesystem is ought to implement correct vnode locking, i.e. vop_nolock() and friends shouldn't exist. -- Boris Popov http://rbp.euro.ru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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