Subject: Re: Redoing file system suspension API (update)
To: Juergen Hannken-Illjes <hannken@eis.cs.tu-bs.de>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/29/2006 09:19:47
On Jun 29, 2006, at 9:02 AM, Juergen Hannken-Illjes wrote:

> Was a suggestion of Bill Studenmund if I remeber right.
>
> No problem to put the recursion into the lock.

...at which point you can simply use a lockmgr lock instead of  
rolling your own, and you automatically get the writer-gets-priority  
behavior, etc.

-- thorpej