On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 06:40:00PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> Do you really think a single lock is the way to go? Maybe I'm just
> paranoid, but somebody is going to run into a locking bottleneck here
> eventually. I also just don't like global locks.
Well, we have a global entity being protected -- the file_lock_list.
Clearly we don't want to use one of the existing per-inode semaphores
since semaphores have a noted bad effect on both benchmarks and real-world
scenarios. And I don't think introducing a new per-inode lock would
really be welcome.
> I'll ask our benchmarking team if they have test suites for file
> locking. I crossing my fingers.
Cool, thanks.
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