Re: NFS lockd

Olaf Kirch (okir@monad.swb.de)
Mon, 26 Jul 1999 14:23:44 +0200

On Thu, 08 Jul 1999 20:40:01 PDT, H.J. Lu wrote:
> > I have a NFS-related question for you: in fs/lockd/clntlock.c::reclaimer()
> > we have a very suspiciously-looking place - loop over the active locks
> > runs by ->fl_next, not ->fl_nextlink. AFAICS it's a bug, but I'ld like to
> > hear your confirmation on that. Comments?
> > Cheers,
>
> I am not familiar with the code. Does anyone have comments?

Yes, he's right. fl_next links all locks for one file; fl_nextlink
loops over all locks for all files, which is what we want when we
need to reclaim locks.

Olaf

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