Re: ZFS vs NetBSD vnode recycling

[Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:58:08AM +0200, Adam Hamsik wrote:
> > That sounds like a better approach than your first suggestion because
> > it will (hopefully) avoid the overhead and delay in most cases.
> 
> That approach seems like a hack to me because MUTEX_HELD should not be
> used for locking decisions, but we are doing the same in 1 and 3.

Yes, indeed, I missed that hitch. Can the same be achieved by
using mutex_tryenter()?

        Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/