Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267166AbTGHLO1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 07:14:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265043AbTGHLOP (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 07:14:15 -0400 Received: from tmi.comex.ru ([217.10.33.92]:64644 "EHLO gw.home.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267194AbTGHLN5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 07:13:57 -0400 X-Comment-To: Andi Kleen To: Andi Kleen Cc: Alex Tomas , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] parallel directory operations From: bzzz@tmi.comex.ru Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 15:28:27 +0000 In-Reply-To: (Andi Kleen's message of "08 Jul 2003 13:26:31 +0200") Message-ID: <87of05ujfo.fsf@gw.home.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.090018 (Oort Gnus v0.18) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) References: <87wuetukpa.fsf@gw.home.net.suse.lists.linux.kernel> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 696 Lines: 17 >>>>> Andi Kleen (AK) writes: AK> Alex Tomas writes: >> dynamic locks. supports exclusive and shared locks. exclusive lock may >> be taken several times by first owner. AK> What's the difference between these locks and the existing rw semaphores? 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/