From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 10 2:57: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from axl.seasidesoftware.co.za (axl.seasidesoftware.co.za [196.31.7.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C404737B405 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 02:57:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.seasidesoftware.co.za) by axl.seasidesoftware.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16vEth-000DGP-00; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:00:13 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Jeff Roberson Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LOOKUP_SHARED is default now In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 09 Apr 2002 15:06:19 -0400." <20020409150239.B38158-100000@mail.chesapeake.net> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:00:13 +0200 Message-ID: <50988.1018432813@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 09 Apr 2002 15:06:19 -0400, Jeff Roberson wrote: > Right, sorry. There was some minimal discussion about this on arch quite > a while ago. Basically, it allows namei to return leafs locked with > shared locks instead of exclusive locks when a flag is set. > > This not only reduces contention, but also the number of exclusive locks > that are floating around in the system. A good place for this to be documented is the "NAMEI OPERATION FLAGS" section of the namei(9) manual page. If you're not comfortable with the mdoc(7) markup language, you can submit your documentation change in plaintext format to the -doc list, and someone will usually do the markup and commit for you. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message