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Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author	Files	Lines
2007-04-26	ocfs2: Remove delete inode vote	Tiger Yang	1	-0/+5
	Ocfs2 currently does cluster-wide node messaging to check the open state of an inode during delete. This patch removes that mechanism in favor of an inode cluster lock which is taken at shared read when an inode is first read and dropped in clear_inode(). This allows a deleting node to test the liveness of an inode by attempting to take an exclusive lock. Signed-off-by: Tiger Yang <tiger.yang@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-09-24	ocfs2: Add new cluster lock type	Mark Fasheh	1	-0/+25
	Replace the dentry vote mechanism with a cluster lock which covers a set of dentries. This allows us to force d_delete() only on nodes which actually care about an unlink. Every node that does a ->lookup() gets a read only lock on the dentry, until an unlink during which the unlinking node, will request an exclusive lock, forcing the other nodes who care about that dentry to d_delete() it. The effect is that we retain a very lightweight ->d_revalidate(), and at the same time get to make large improvements to the average case performance of the ocfs2 unlink and rename operations. This patch adds the cluster lock type which OCFS2 can attach to dentries. A small number of fs/ocfs2/dcache.c functions are stubbed out so that this change can compile. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-01-03	[PATCH] OCFS2: The Second Oracle Cluster Filesystem	Mark Fasheh	1	-0/+73
	The OCFS2 file system module. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Kurt Hackel <kurt.hackel@oracle.com>