a take at cache coherency

[Matthew Dillon]

:[forgot to post]
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:On 25.01.2006, at 14:41, Csaba Henk wrote:
:>> I'd still use a ncp_shadowroot to get O(1) locking.
:> While you deref the the shadowroot pointer to go for the group lock,
:> the group might get broken up, and the shadowroot info will be stale.
:
:This can't happen as we still have kernel locking.  At the moment there=20=
:
:won't be any two threads running in parallel accessing namecache=20
:records.  Only if one of them blocks, another thread might sneak in. =20
:So doing a ->ncp_shadowinfo->ncp_exlocks++ is guarranteed to work (at=20
:the moment, when we make the namecache free of the BGL, we'll have to=20
:change the lock to something more sophisticated, but we're not there=20
:yet.)
:
:cheers
:   simon

    We'll just use the serializer when we get to that point.  But, as you
    said, we don't need to do it now.

						-Matt