Return-Path: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from mail-qg0-f43.google.com ([209.85.192.43]:57118 "EHLO mail-qg0-f43.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933516AbaD2Luu (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2014 07:50:50 -0400 Received: by mail-qg0-f43.google.com with SMTP id a108so78374qge.2 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2014 04:50:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 07:50:46 -0400 From: Jeff Layton To: "Matt W. Benjamin" Cc: Ganesha NFS List , lkml , Linux-Fsdevel , Trond Myklebust , "J. Bruce Fields" , Neil Brown , samba-technical@lists.samba.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" , "Frank Filz" Subject: Re: OFD ("file private") locks and NFS Message-ID: <20140429075046.39fc9c3f@tlielax.poochiereds.net> In-Reply-To: <1482413734.4.1398771608019.JavaMail.root@thunderbeast.private.linuxbox.com> References: <20140429071153.176c7404@tlielax.poochiereds.net> <1482413734.4.1398771608019.JavaMail.root@thunderbeast.private.linuxbox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 07:40:08 -0400 (EDT) "Matt W. Benjamin" wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > Something which came up on the last Ganesha conn call is that we have > a pretty strong need for some ability to wait on a set of locks, and perhaps > receive events. Frank Filz believed that you had made a proposal which > would cover this. Can you elaborate on that? > > Thanks, > > Matt > No, there's no mechanism to wait on a set of locks from within the context of a single thread of execution or to receive "events". Again, that would be a new API beyond what I've been proposing over the last several months. -- Jeff Layton