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On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 02:46:10PM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
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> On May 26, 2004, at 12:45 PM, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
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> >are you suggesting file PRs about each dependency on biglock?
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> No.  Bill is asserting that various VOPs don't work correctly with=20
> SHARED locks because they modify data structure that are normally=20
> protected by an EXCLUSIVE lock.  I want him to file PRs on those=20
> specific problems, rather than making a blanket statement that the=20
> SHARED locks are bad.

Sorry, I thought I was saying, "SHARED locks used on vnodes are currently=
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bad." In general shared locks are good. And I'd like us to use them with=20
vnodes. However we need to be more careful about it than we have been.

Also, unfortunately, Chuck's the person who caused the problem but I'm not=
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sure if he's the best person to fix it. YAMAMOTO, Darrin, and I are=20
probably the folks who need to fix it.

Take care,

Bill

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