Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 23:00:44 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, David Xu <bsddiy@21cn.com> Subject: Re: vm balance Message-ID: <27879.987541244@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Apr 2001 13:58:21 PDT." <200104172058.f3HKwL907470@earth.backplane.com>
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In message <200104172058.f3HKwL907470@earth.backplane.com>, Matt Dillon writes: > >: >:In message <200104172016.f3HKG9l05966@earth.backplane.com>, Matt Dillon writes: >:> >:>:In message <20010417125838.J976@fw.wintelcom.net>, Alfred Perlstein writes: >:>: >:>:>I thought vnodes were in stable storage? >:>: >:>:They are, that's the point Matt is not seeing yet. >:> >:> I know vnodes are in stable storage. I'm just saying that NFS >:> is the least of your worries in trying to change that. >: >:The namecache can do without the use of soft references. >: >:The only reason vnodes are stable storage any more is that NFS >:uses soft references to vnodes. > > The only place I see soft references on vnode is in the NFS > lookup code which duplicates the VFS lookup code (except gets it wrong). > If you are refering to the nqlease code... that looks like a hard > reference to me. I'm not even sure why they bother to check v_id. > The vp reference from an nfsnode is a hard reference. > Well, if that's the case, yank all uses of v_id from the nfs code, I'll do the namecache and vnodes can be deleted to the joy of our users... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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