Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Jul 2003 13:46:01 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] parallel directory operations |
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On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 15:28:27 +0000 bzzz@tmi.comex.ru wrote:
> dynlocks implements 'lock namespace', so you can lock A for namepace N1 and > lock B for namespace N1 and so on. we need this because we want to take lock > on _part_ of directory.
Ok, a mini database lock manager. Wouldn't it be better to use a small hash table and lock escalation on overflow for this? Otherwise you could have quite a lot of entries queued up in the list if the server is slow.
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