On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 03:53:27PM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've been struggling upgrading kernel since beginning of April, and finally
> found I have to add "options LOOKUP_EXCLUSIVE" to my kernel config file.
> Without LOOKUP_EXCLUSIVE,
> - some of the processes stall in "inode" state,
Hi.
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 01:08:04AM -0400, Jeff Roberson wrote:
> This patch has seriously reduced file system deadlocks for several people.
> It also makes concurrent file system access much faster in certain cases.
> Since I have only heard good reports and no bad reports I'm going to
> enab
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 12:00:13PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> A good place for this to be documented is the "NAMEI OPERATION FLAGS"
> section of the namei(9) manual page.
I don't believe this option will exist long enought for it to need to be
documented. Jeff changed the default, but left th
On Tue, 09 Apr 2002 15:06:19 -0400, Jeff Roberson wrote:
> Right, sorry. There was some minimal discussion about this on arch quite
> a while ago. Basically, it allows namei to return leafs locked with
> shared locks instead of exclusive locks when a flag is set.
>
> This not only reduces co
On 9 Apr 2002, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
>
> Considering that neither LOOKUP_SHARED nor LOOKUP_EXCLUSIVE is
> documented anywhere, could you enlighten us as to what, exactly, they
> do?
>
Right, sorry. There was some minimal discussion about this on arch quite
a while ago. Basically, it all
Jeff Roberson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This patch has seriously reduced file system deadlocks for several people.
> It also makes concurrent file system access much faster in certain cases.
> Since I have only heard good reports and no bad reports I'm going to
> enable it by default. If you
