From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: On setting a lease across a cluster Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 13:18:24 -0700 Message-ID: <20080104201824.GF20473@parisc-linux.org> References: <20080104181415.GE20473@parisc-linux.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: bfields@citi.umich.edu, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: "david m. richter" Return-path: Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:59176 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752445AbYADUSZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jan 2008 15:18:25 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 01:55:36PM -0500, david m. richter wrote: > fwiw, i've done some work on extending the lease subsystem to help > support the full range of requirements for NFSv4 file and directory > delegations (e.g., breaking a lease when unlinking a file) and we ended up > actually doing most of what you've just suggested here, which i take to be > a good sign. As long as it's great minds thinking alike and not fools seldom differing ;-) > most of my refactoring came out of trying to simplify locking and > avoid holding locks too long (rather than specifically focusing on > cluster-oriented stuff, but the goals dovetail) and your work on getting > the BKL out of locks.c entirely is something i really like and look > forward to. Excellent. Shall I make the patch myself, or did you want to post a patch based on working code? ;-) -- Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step."