Re: NFS client latencies

Trond Myklebust
2005-03-31T15:11:27Z

to den 31.03.2005 Klokka 16:58 (+0200) skreiv Ingo Molnar:

> would it be safe to collect locked entries into a separate, local list,
> so that the restart would only see newly added entries? Then once the
> moving of all entries has been done, all the locked entries could be
> added back to the commit_list via one list_add. (can anything happen to
> those locked entries that would break this method?)

You are not allowed to remove an entry from the list if it is locked by
someone else. Locking grants temporary ownership of the entry.

Cheers,
Trond
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