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Re: PUFFS lookup/reclaim race



On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 09:30:52AM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
 > > You also need to make sure that the kernel knows how many references
 > > to C it's been given, so it can drop that many when it calls
 > > PUFFS_RECLAIM.
 > 
 > Do you mean I should have the kernel conunting successful lookups, 
 > and send the reclaim with the lookup count? This is how FUSE works,
 > perhaps this is not a coincidence.

I think that ends up being the same thing, yes.

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David A. Holland
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