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

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On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 13:45 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > 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).
> 
> OK, makes sense.  So what will be the scope of a cred lookup--an rpc
> client?

That should normally be the case, but why do you need to change the
locking here in the first place? Is there ever going to be a case where
the same rpc_cred has upcalls on several different pipes? I can't see
how that could be justified.

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