Subject: Re: LK_SHARED for VFS_VGET/FHTOVP
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/25/2004 23:52:56
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On May 25, 2004, at 11:15 PM, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> Specifically with using exclusive locks, I think that the vnode system 
> was
> fine-grained. Perhaps not the best locking (we can get better 
> parallelism,
> perhaps), but correct. By changing things so we need big-lock, we take 
> a
> step back.

Why do you think that a shared lock requires use of the Biglock?

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>


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