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Date:      Sat, 26 Jun 1999 12:27:09 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Kirk McKusick <mckusick@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys buf.h lock.h src/sys/kern kern_lock.c kern_physio.c kern_shutdown.c subr_dkbad.c vfs_aio.c vfs_bio.c vfs_cluster.c vfs_subr.c src/sys/miscfs/devfs devfs_vnops.c src/sys/miscfs/specfs spec_vnops.c src/sys/msdosfs msdosfs_vnops.c ...
Message-ID:  <19990626122708.B427@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199906260247.TAA84326@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Kirk McKusick on Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 07:47:20PM -0700
References:  <199906260247.TAA84326@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Friday, 25 June 1999 at 19:47:20 -0700, Kirk McKusick wrote:
> mckusick    1999/06/25 19:47:19 PDT
>
>   Log:
>   Convert buffer locking from using the B_BUSY and B_WANTED flags to using
>   lockmgr locks. This commit should be functionally equivalent to the old
>   semantics. That is, all buffer locking is done with LK_EXCLUSIVE
>   requests. Changes to take advantage of LK_SHARED and LK_RECURSIVE will
>   be done in future commits.

Is this worth a "heads up"?  It'll change the way a lot of things have
been done.

Greg
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