On 23-Mar-00 H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>>
>> On 21-Mar-00 Steven N. Hirsch wrote:
>> > After weeks of bliss, I had a mishap with autofs-4.0.0pre6-1. The kernel
>> > running at the time was 2.2.15pre15 (SMP) + Tronds NFSv3 patch + D.
>> > Higgens server and NLM patch (quite stable actually). The hardware is 2x
>> > P3 500Mhz. w/ U2W Scsi - 128MB of memory.
>>
>> Bum. Well, I had a poke about, but I haven't seen anything obvious yet.
>> I've
>> never tested on SMP (don't have one), so it could be something to do with
>> that.
>> Was there much else going on at the time?
>>
>
> Eep. Be careful about SMP locking issues.
My impression was that the VFS is still protected by the big lock, at least in
2.2. Are VFS entry points multithreaded?
J
