2007-02-03 05:30:55

by J.Bruce Fields

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Subject: asynchronous locks for cluster exports


This is another attempt at a posix locking interface that allows us to
provide NFS clients with cluster-coherent locking without blocking lockd
while the filesystem goes off and talks to other nodes.

This time we're using the existing file ->lock operation instead of
defining a new export operation for the purpose, and factoring out the
code that switches between calling ->lock or the default local
operation, so that lock managers and local callers go through the same
code.

I find the existing interfaces a little odd, and while I think I managed
to combine them correctly, I'd certainly appreciate any review.

The gfs2 implementation in the last patch is (unfortunately) still just
a rough draft that needs some more thought and some testing.

--b.