Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Mon, 25 Oct 1999 11:16:09 +0100 (BST) | Subject | Re: Why does sys_fsync have a lock_kernel around it? |
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Hi,
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999 14:10:45 +0400, Hans Reiser <reiser@idiom.com> said:
> Since we are moving to an SMP kernel, and since we dropped locks in > other places around other FS operations, wouldn't it be more > consistent and cleaner coding to not lock any call before the FS gets > passed it?
Quite probably! Time is running out to get it into 2.3, though.
--Stephen
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