Re: [PATCH 0/4] cifs: alternate approach to fixing oplock queue races
Steve French <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.file-systems.cifs |
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On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Jeff Layton<[email protected]> wrote: > This patchset is an alternate approach to fixing the oplock queue > problems. Rather than tracking oplocks with separate structures, this > patchset adds some fields to cifsFileInfo. > > When an oplock break comes in, is_valid_oplock_break takes an extra > reference to the cifsFileInfo and queues the oplock break job to the > events workqueue. This looks excellent - the 4th patch has to be tried carefully but easier to read than alternatives. Any idea when the schedule_work would get dispatched (is the current task put to sleep immediately?) -- Thanks, Steve