linux-kernel - Re: [announce] vfs-scale git tree update

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Date:	Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:14:14 +1100
From:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
To:	Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, aelder@....com,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [announce] vfs-scale git tree update

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 12:01 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
>> Hm, what are the concurrencies that you need protection from?
>
> Ha, I think I'm wrong about this, after looking more closely at this I'm
> struggling to see why autofs4_lock is needed at all.

Well you did send me a series of patches to remove it, but
unfortunately that was just as you made some larger changes
to autofs4 upstream and I wasn't able to keep them up to date.

It would be much appreciated if you had time to take another
look at all the locking and streamline it.

Thanks,
Nick
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