Re: Ok, making ready for pre-2.4 and code-freeze..

Neil Brown (neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au)
Thu, 16 Dec 1999 09:53:34 +1100 (EST)


On Tuesday December 14, viro@math.psu.edu wrote:
> cleaning up remnants of dcache abuse in knfsd _and_ NFS.

Could you give me a pointer to what you means by "dcache" abuse - I
would like to make my VFS documentation describe "approved" practice.

Also, is there thought of changing i_sem to be a new read-write
semaphore? It would seem to make a lot of sense and would easy the
way to taking the dcache out of the kernel-lock.

NeilBrown

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