Re: [Linux-cluster] Re: GFS, what's remaining

From: Daniel Phillips
Date: Mon Sep 05 2005 - 04:28:34 EST


On Monday 05 September 2005 05:19, Andrew Morton wrote:
> David Teigland <teigland@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 01:54:08AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > David Teigland <teigland@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > We export our full dlm API through read/write/poll on a misc device.
> > >
> > > inotify did that for a while, but we ended up going with a straight
> > > syscall interface.
> > >
> > > How fat is the dlm interface? ie: how many syscalls would it take?
> >
> > Four functions:
> > create_lockspace()
> > release_lockspace()
> > lock()
> > unlock()
>
> Neat. I'd be inclined to make them syscalls then. I don't suppose anyone
> is likely to object if we reserve those slots.

Better take a look at the actual parameter lists to those calls before jumping
to conclusions...

Regards,

Daniel
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