On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, chas williams wrote: > >I guess we drop GLOCK because there is a possibility that alloc > >might sleep in vmalloc under heavy load and we don't want to > >lock up the system for so long, which is probably a good idea. > > actually, i think i would have to disagree due to the number > of strange side effects this could cause, like the event > mechanism. other os's (as you have mentioned) dont drop > the lock. i am beginning to think this is a bad idea since > various part of the afs code dont seem to expect alloc's > to drop glock.
going to sleep with the GLOCK isn't likely to result in fewer "strange side effects". _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
