Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 10:02:14 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: grog@lemis.com, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Locking on disk slice I/O--yes, no or how? Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.95.980122095543.5155A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <199801212329.QAA12160@usr09.primenet.com>
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On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Terry Lambert wrote: > Only if you have an intention collision would you resort to a TSM > call to resolve the collision. For the most part, it's non-blocking. TSM doesn't necessarily mean it's non-blocking. It just means that a vnode you're about to modify won't suddenly become a mbuf. Intent locking seems similar in this respect. Maybe I'm being a smartass, but since John said TSM instead of NBS it leaves it open to speculation a wee bit. Things sure are getting interesting in current! Regards, Mike -- michaelh@cet.co.jp http://www.cet.co.jp CET Inc., Daiichi Kasuya BLDG 8F 2-5-12, Higashi Shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105 Japan Tel: +81-3-3437-1761 Fax: +81-3-3437-1766
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