Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Oct 1999 03:09:43 +0200 (CEST) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: Why does sys_fsync have a lock_kernel around it? |
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On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Hans Reiser wrote:
>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?
Definitely. This because to drop the lock in the right way you can't simply unlock_kernel() (as the kernel lock is recursive).
Andrea
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