Re: [PATCH 2/5] rpc: Use separate spinlock for cred locking in auth_gss.c

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On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 18:50 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> The i_lock uses in auth_gss.c are to protect the gc_upcall and gc_ctx
> fields of the gss cred; so we can use a separate per-auth spinlock for
> those instead of the i_lock.  This simplifies the locking in the case
> where we have two different pipes (one the current pipe, one the pipe
> for a new more flexible upcall), either of which might be used for gss
> upcalls.

NACK. I deliberately ripped out the old struct gss_auth spinlock in
order to allow multiple gss_auth per inode (I believe Kevin was asking
for this).

Trond

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