On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 05:07:47PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 05:35:44PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > We want to drop all I/O path locks when recalling layouts, and that includes > > i_mutex for the write path. Without this we get stuck processe when recalls > > take too long. > > Also if the writer is an nfsd thread than we'd rather just error out > than wait. We have no way to know we are called by nfsd here unfortunately. -- 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