[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] ocfs2/dlm: make existing convertion precedent over new lock

Joel Becker Joel.Becker at oracle.com
Wed Dec 8 10:12:23 PST 2010


On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 10:07:57AM -0800, Joel Becker wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 08:34:39PM +0800, Wengang Wang wrote:
> > Make existing convertion precedent over new lock. It makes o2dlm locking more
> > like fair locking.
> 
> 	Is this a problem you were solving, or just something you
> thought about while reading the code?  If it was a problem you ran
> into, can you give the details?

	It looks like you're just emulating the logic from
__dlmconvert_master().  That makes sense.

Joel

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