linux-kernel - Re: OFD ("file private") locks and NFS

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Date:	Tue, 29 Apr 2014 07:40:08 -0400 (EDT)
From:	"Matt W. Benjamin" <matt@...uxbox.com>
To:	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...chiereds.net>
Cc:	Ganesha NFS List <nfs-ganesha-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux-Fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>, samba-technical@...ts.samba.org,
	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
	"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
Subject: Re: OFD ("file private") locks and NFS

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

----- "Jeff Layton" <jlayton@...chiereds.net> wrote:

> 
> If we really find later that we need to do something like this, I
> think
> we'd be better off adding a new set of cmd values along with the
> "extended" struct, or possibly a new syscall. Some of the samba folks
> were interested in an async locking mechanism too, so something like
> that could be added in conjunction with such an interface.
> 


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