On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 09:45:38AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On Tuesday, August 26, 2014 4:17:22 am Mateusz Guzik wrote: > > Author: mjg > > Date: Tue Aug 26 08:17:22 2014 > > New Revision: 270648 > > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/270648 > > > > Log: > > Fix up races with f_seqcount handling. > > > > It was possible that the kernel would overwrite user-supplied hint. > > > > Abuse vnode lock for this purpose. > > > > In collaboration with: kib > > MFC after: 1 week > > Do we care about this being correct enough to penalize reads by single- > threading them? This is just an optimization, if you lose the race it > doesn't > actually break anything. >
We don't singlethread reads, vnode is locked exactly as it was previously. What changes is that a rarely used (as compared to reads) function playing with f_seqcount now takes exclusive lock. If anything, this is an optimization since it removes an unnecessary load_acq. -- Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik gmail.com> _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
