On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:07:46 +0400
Pavel Shilovsky <[email protected]> wrote:

> 2012/11/28 Jeff Layton <[email protected]>:
> > On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:55:41 +0400
> > Pavel Shilovsky <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> 2012/11/28 Jeff Layton <[email protected]>:
> >> > There's also a lot of logic around what sort of locking you're doing
> >> > here too. I think we ought to do the same sort of I/O regardless of
> >> > whether POSIX locks are being used or not.
> >>
> >> We can use cifs_writev for both POSIX and mandatory variants but I
> >> divided them to make POSIX variant work faster (no need to check hold
> >> a semaphore, walk through a lock list, etc).
> >>
> >
> > Refresh my memory -- why do we need to handle writes differently when
> > POSIX vs. non-POSIX locking is in force? It seems to me that that
> > shouldn't matter and the behavior should be solely a function of what
> > sort of oplock you have.
> 
> A write request can have conflict with mandatory locks set on a file.
> That's why we need to check for lock conflicts before issue the
> write/read.
> 

Hmmm...and the server might not know about the lock if it's cached.
Fair enough.

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Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
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