Jeff Layton wrote: > > This is the problem we have now with the BKL. So much of > rpc/nlm/nfs/nfsd runs under it that it's nearly impossible to tell what > it's intended to actually protect. Practically none of nfsd runs under BKL, except the startup and shutdown sequences and some of the write handlers for /proc/fs/nfsd/. > If we're going to start a push > toward BKL removal, my humble request is that we try to be as explicit > as possible about what locks protect what data structures. > See comments in net/sunrpc/svcsock.c and net/sunrpc/svc.c. Here the BKL is protecting the global nfsd_serv pointer. -- Greg Banks, P.Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group. The cake is *not* a lie. I don't speak for SGI. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
