Re: Futexes and network filesystems.

2007-11-20 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Kyle Moffett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Nov 20, 2007, at 17:53:52, Er ic W. Biederman wrote: >> I had a chance to think about this a bit more, and realized that the problem >> is that futexes don't appear to work on network filesystems, even if the >> network filesystems provide coherent s

Re: Futexes and network filesystems.

2007-11-20 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Nov 20, 2007, at 17:53:52, Er ic W. Biederman wrote: I had a chance to think about this a bit more, and realized that the problem is that futexes don't appear to work on network filesystems, even if the network filesystems provide coherent shared memory. It seems to me that we need to h

Futexes and network filesystems.

2007-11-20 Thread Er ic W. Biederman
Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Dave Hansen wrote: >> > >> > There are certainly more of these, but here is one In the futex >> > userspace address, we install the current pid's vnr into a userspace >> > address. >>