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.
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