On Wednesday February 13, merlin@transgeek.com wrote:
> Ok guys get ready to flame me....
>
> The attached patch removes the lock/unlock in this function. Now I am 80%
> sure of this one, but would like a word from the kmod maintainer about
> whether request_module needs the BKL or not. do_nfsservctl already takes
> the BKL inside the function so as long as request_module is safe this pair
> can be removed -- effectively making do_nfsservctl responsible for it's own
> locking scheme.
>
> So whoever knows for SURE about request_module, please reply.
Please see
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/patches/linux-devel/2.5.4-pre5/
for current nfsd patches.
patch-E-NfsdSyscallCleanup
might be of particular interest.
When I have finished testing these (sometime next week I hope) I will
be submitting them to Linux for 2.5, and then backporting them to 2.4,
and hopefully submitting the least intrusive ones to Marcello shortly
after 2.4.18 comes out.
These patches:
remove most of the BKL
enable TCP support
plus assorted other things.
Comments, and testing, most welcome.
NeilBrown
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