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

[Sunil Mushran]

On 12/08/2010 10:12 AM, Joel Becker wrote:
> 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.

This fix is an offshoot of the conversation in his thread.
http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/ocfs2-devel/2010-November/007524.html

The fix looks ok. But I would rather that we confirm this problem and the
fix before we push it upstream.

Wengang, Have you attempted to reproduce the problem and/or test the fix?

Sunil