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Date:      Tue, 12 Apr 2005 23:05:05 -0700
From:      John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Suleiman Souhlal <ssouhlal@FreeBSD.org>, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] Allow watching of vnodes that reside on non-UFS filesystems with kqueue
Message-ID:  <20050413060505.GM56487@funkthat.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050413054020.GL56487@funkthat.com>
References:  <0842a01b5aa0cfcd84763fff4a30113e@FreeBSD.org> <20050413054020.GL56487@funkthat.com>

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John-Mark Gurney wrote this message on Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 22:40 -0700:
> Suleiman Souhlal wrote this message on Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 23:05 -0400:
> > The patch at 
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~ssouhlal/testing/kqueue-hooks-20050412.diff 
> > allows watching vnodes on non-UFS filesystems with kqueue.
> > 
> > It moves the VN_KNOTE calls to pre and post VOP_* hooks. These hooks 
> > are currently used for VFS lock debugging only, but I made them 
> > unconditional. I think that they we could eventually move the 
> > mac_check_vnode_* calls into them too, with a bit of work.
> > 
> > I would like to commit this to HEAD, if there are no objections.
> 
> I would prefer to move the vfs_kqfilter and filt_vfs* functions either
> be moved to a vfs specific file, or be moved to their own file..  also,
> it appears that we lost support for extending of files... though I can't
> confirm that...  Have you verified that extending still gets notified?
> 
> Other wise looks good...

Just to clarify, I'm only ok'ing the kqueue changes (as long as
the concers above are cleared).. I don't have enough VFS experience to
say how the VFS changes will effect things..


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