Subject: Re: Buffers and vnodes
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/25/2007 20:06:37
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 02:13:51PM +0100, Andrew Doran wrote:
> I've been looking into simplifying the locking, as it's unclear what's
> covered by the long term lock (B_BUSY) and the short term lock
> (b_interlock). One thing I'd like to do is replace b_interlock with a
> pointer to the interlock for the vnode that the buffer is currently
> associated with.
Is it really a good idea to make the vnode locking even more
complicated?
Joerg