Re: Reclaiming vnodes

[Adam Hamsik <haaaad%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Aug,Monday 17 2009, at 3:16 PM, Martin Husemann wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 02:18:45PM +0200, Adam Hamsik wrote:
> > To simplify locking in filesystems
>
> OK.
>
> > If adding new kernel thread is a problem I can use vrelel thread to  
> > do
> > this too.
>
> It's not directly a problem, but maybe reusing vrelel is a good idea
> anyway.

I will look at it then.
> What does the filesystem do if there are no clean vnodes available?

It allocates new vnode with vnalloc.

Regards

Adam.