[Linux-cluster] Synchronous Locking Function for Kernel

[renapte at vsnl.net]

Hi,
I'm trying to use the DLM independently to acquire locks in the ext2 code. I'm calling the functions that refresh the kernel data structures in the AST after taking the locks. I'd like to know how to find out when this AST has been called, ie when do I know the final result of the locking so as to proceed in the ext2 function. I can see a completion structure in the holder structure in the glock layer. Is that what performs this task in the gfs?
Thanks
Renuka.

----- Original Message -----
From: Patrick Caulfield <pcaulfie at redhat.com>
Date: Monday, February 20, 2006 2:33 pm
Subject: Re: [Linux-cluster] Synchronous Locking Function for Kernel

> renapte at vsnl.net wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'd like to know if there is any Synchronous Locking Function in 
> the DLM that can be used in the kernel.
> > Thanks in advance,
> 
> No there isn't at the moment. It would be pretty easy to add but 
> this is the
> first time anyone has shown any interest. Most kernel activity is 
> asynchronousanyway.
> 
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