>  > My thought was to just have getnewvnode() ignore the previous contents of
>  > v_vnlock (the pointer)  and initialize it to &vp->v_lock (the struct
>  > lock). 
> 
> ...along these lines... is it possible for vnodes which are still
> referenced to actually be on the free list?  

If I recall correctly, the name lookup cache contains pointers to them
but doesn't hold a reference.

A generation number scheme is used to notice when vnodes get reused.

> If not, then I'd like to nuke the free list completely, and
> pool_put() vnodes when they're no longer used (so that free vnode
> pool pages can be reclaimed if necessary).

Hmm.  I would think that this would reduce efficiency somewhat, as
vnodes couldn't be reclaimed from the freelist..

					- Bill