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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] AFS: Implement file locking [try #2]
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 17:57:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070529215736.GO6815@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070529145426.19366.35289.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>

One more vague question I had while skimming the previous version--

On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 03:54:27PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> +static void afs_grant_locks(struct afs_vnode *vnode, struct file_lock *fl)
> +{
> +	struct file_lock *p, *_p;
> +
> +	list_move_tail(&fl->fl_u.afs.link, &vnode->granted_locks);
> +	if (fl->fl_type == F_RDLCK) {
> +		list_for_each_entry_safe(p, _p, &vnode->pending_locks,
> +					 fl_u.afs.link) {
> +			if (p->fl_type == F_RDLCK) {
> +				p->fl_u.afs.state = AFS_LOCK_GRANTED;
> +				list_move_tail(&p->fl_u.afs.link,
> +					       &vnode->granted_locks);
> +				wake_up(&p->fl_wait);
> +			}
> +		}
> +	}
> +}

--without having tried to understand how they're actually used, these
data structures (like the pending_locks and granted_locks lists) seem to
duplicate stuff that's already kept in fs/locks.c.  Is there a reason
they're required?

--b.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-29 21:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-29 14:54 [PATCH] AFS: Implement file locking [try #2] David Howells
2007-05-29 21:57 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2007-05-30  8:35 ` David Howells
2007-05-30 18:03   ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-05-31  9:41   ` David Howells

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