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From: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Re: GFS, what's remaining
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 17:24:33 +0800
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On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 01:54:08AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >  We export our full dlm API through read/write/poll on a misc device.
> >
> 
> inotify did that for a while, but we ended up going with a straight syscall
> interface.
> 
> How fat is the dlm interface?   ie: how many syscalls would it take?

Four functions:
  create_lockspace()
  release_lockspace()
  lock()
  unlock()

Dave