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From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
Subject: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 5/5] ocfs2/dlm: make dynamic lvb alloc work
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:52:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100911035210.GL885@mail.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C8ACBD3.4090706@oracle.com>

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 05:22:43PM -0700, Sunil Mushran wrote:
> BTW, you are forgetting user_dlm. Not userspace dlm, but user dlm.
> So the premise here is that we can skip allocating space for the lvb
> based on the lockname. That will work for fs locks. But not for dlmfs/
> userdlm because we allow users to create any lockname.
> 
> Now granted we can then say that lvb is not available for userdlm.
> But we do provide that facility right now.

	We are not taking away the lvb for userdlm.  So userdlm would
have to always allocate, I guess.

Joel

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Joel Becker
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      reply	other threads:[~2010-09-11  3:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-26 13:08 [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 5/5] ocfs2/dlm: make dynamic lvb alloc work Wengang Wang
2010-09-11  0:22 ` Sunil Mushran
2010-09-11  3:52   ` Joel Becker [this message]

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