Re: Junior Kernel Hacker task: improve vnode->v_tag

[Boris Popov]

On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Maxim Sobolev wrote:

> > The places which inspect v_tag will have to be changed to use
> > strcmp() then...
> 
> I think that we can add a new vnode flag, say VCANLOCK, so that each
> particular VFS can set it if it supports locking, which should allow
> to remove pre-defined VFS list from the IS_LOCKING_VFS macro. I can
> produce a patch if it sounds reasonably.

        I'm not sure if this a right thing to do. Under SMPng each
filesystem is ought to implement correct vnode locking, i.e. vop_nolock()
and friends shouldn't exist.

-- 
Boris Popov
http://rbp.euro.ru


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