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From: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 4/10] vfs: global namespace semaphore
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:46:02 -0700
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To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
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On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 23:51, Al Viro wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 11:26:19AM -0700, Ram wrote:
> > This patch removes the per-namespace semaphore in favor of a global
> > semaphore.  This can have an effect on namespace scalability.
> 
> ... and #2 uses that semaphore...

Patch #2, uses the global semaphore.  Yes that patch  would'nt have
compiled without patch #4, because the global semaphore got defined only
in the patch #4.

RP