On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 02:05:44PM -0500, Shaya Potter wrote: > this patch changes the use of the read/write lock to force serialization > on the branch table.
Makes sense. > basically, any entry point that can change it (ioctl for adding/changing > mode/inc) is taken with write, while every other fs entry point (lookup, > read, write....) is taken with read. basically to force the fs not to > be in use when a branching operation is taking place. Logical. > thoughts? Hmm...this seems like the perfect place to use RCU instead of conventional rw semaphores. Jeff. _______________________________________________ unionfs mailing list [email protected] http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/mailman/listinfo/unionfs
