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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K. V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>,
	V9FS Developers <v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [V9fs-developer] [GIT PULL] 9p file system bug fixes for  2.6.35-rc2
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:31:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinVdrY7AHFCjDIWAD0yLGhLYZwwHH3kKXBlkD5v@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimmEi-3WF3pMcXmKiyElG9O7QLHNImPN0eJ05D3@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> wrote:
>
> I think that you need to use the s_vfs_rename_mutex in the super_block
> struct instead of introducing a new rename_lock in the v9fs session.

I actually think it's better to avoid having filesystems muck around
with VFS locking details. Also, I think we get the VFS rename mutex
only for cross-directory renames, and as mentioned, 9p needs locking
even for regular directory renames.

(Also, this way you can have parallel readers - although we could
obviously change the vfs rename mutex into a rw-sem too).

So I do think that keeping the logic private to a 9p-specific lock is
the right solution here.

                 Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-30 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-07 20:02 [GIT PULL] 9p file system bug fixes for 2.6.35-rc2 Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-06-08  0:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-08  0:41   ` Al Viro
2010-06-08  0:48     ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-16 16:42     ` [V9fs-developer] " Aneesh Kumar K. V
2010-06-24 16:30       ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
2010-06-29 20:18         ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-06-29 20:38           ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-30 11:52             ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
2010-06-30 16:48               ` Linus Torvalds
2010-06-30 18:58                 ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
2010-06-30 18:16               ` Latchesar Ionkov
2010-06-30 18:31                 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2010-06-30 18:33                 ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
2010-06-30 12:55         ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
2010-06-08 14:29   ` Venkateswararao Jujjuri (JV)

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