Revision dc59250c6ebed099a9bc0a11298e2281dd896657 authored by Chuck Lever on 18 August 2005, 18:24:12 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 18 August 2005, 19:53:57 UTC
Down the road we want to eliminate the use of the global kernel lock entirely from the NFS client. To do this, we need to protect the fields in the nfs_inode structure adequately. Start by serializing updates to the "cache_validity" field. Note this change addresses an SMP hang found by njw@osdl.org, where processes deadlock because nfs_end_data_update and nfs_revalidate_mapping update the "cache_validity" field without proper serialization. Test plan: Millions of fsx ops on SMP clients. Run Nick Wilson's breaknfs program on large SMP clients. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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sgi-visws.txt
The SGI Visual Workstations (models 320 and 540) are based around
the Cobalt, Lithium, and Arsenic ASICs. The Cobalt ASIC is the
main system ASIC which interfaces the 1-4 IA32 cpus, the memory
system, and the I/O system in the Lithium ASIC. The Cobalt ASIC
also contains the 3D gfx rendering engine which renders to main
system memory -- part of which is used as the frame buffer which
is DMA'ed to a video connector using the Arsenic ASIC. A PIIX4
chip and NS87307 are used to provide legacy device support (IDE,
serial, floppy, and parallel).
The Visual Workstation chipset largely conforms to the PC architecture
with some notable exceptions such as interrupt handling.
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