Subject: Re: Pulling simple syscalls out from the giant lock
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
From: Reinoud Zandijk <reinoud@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/27/2005 01:44:25
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On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 02:29:21PM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> On Jun 7, 2005, at 10:41 AM, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> >The vnode locks needed for getcwd() certainly _ought_ to be MP-safe,
> >no?  What's the point of having them there if they aren't?
> 
> I don't believe for a moment that the VFS locking "protocol" is  
> actually MP-safe.

Maybe a good reason the more to overhaul VFS locking `protocol' / cleaning 
up namei calls.... though i am NOT voluntering for this.

(ducks away)

Reinoud


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