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Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 11:08:18 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> To: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...marydata.com> Cc: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 15/17] locks: give lm_break a return value On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 08:38:41AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > Christoph suggests: > > "Add a return value to lm_break so that the lock manager can tell the > core code "you can delete this lease right now". That gets rid of > the games with the timeout which require all kinds of race avoidance > code in the users." > > Do that here and have the nfsd lease break routine use it when it detects > that there was a race between setting up the lease and it being broken. Looks good, Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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