Re: Vnode API cleanup pass 2a

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 05:26:14PM +0100, J. Hannken-Illjes wrote:
 > > This seems to largely add code to file systems to mess with locking
 > > further, rather than reducing that code.
 > 
 > What do you mean with "mess" here?
 > 
 > > Can you explain how this
 > > change helps to clean up those dirty hacks?
 > 
 > This is the first of hopefully two steps.  Once lookup returns its
 > result unlocked the hacks can go as all operations adding or looking
 > up layer nodes work on unlocked vnodes.
 > 
 > > Are you planning to make
 > > lookup return the node unlocked too or something first?
 > 
 > Sure, changing the lookup operation to do the same is be the next step.

also, maybe it would be better to tackle lookup first?

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David A. Holland
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