svn commit: r273966 - in head: share/man/man9 sys/kern sys/sys

[Konstantin Belousov]

On Sun, Nov 02, 2014 at 11:37:57PM +0100, Attilio Rao wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 10:38 PM, Konstantin Belousov
> <kostikbel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 02, 2014 at 10:17:26PM +0100, Attilio Rao wrote:
> >> I think that your initial patch (what is in head now) is a better approach.
> >> I would just make it a lockinit() flag to make it less alien to the KPI.
> >>
> >
> > Ok.
> >
> > Can you explain what would the proposed lockinit() flag do ? What should
> > it change comparing with the current code ?
> 
> You now provide LK_NODDLKTREAT on a call basis.
> The lockinit() flag would embed this into the lock attribute and make
> it always real, without the need for the callers to provide
> LK_NODDLKTREAT on a call basis.

Am I reading your proposal right ? Do you mean, that for all vnodes,
I should disable exclusive starvation avoidance at all ? I completely
disagree with this.