kernel oplocks 2.2.1a

Juer Lee Juer.Lee at raidtec.ie
Mon Sep 17 05:23:03 GMT 2001


Thanks.
But , there was only one client accessing that file when I was doing
that test. :(
And, I sent a email again about that. The question is:
If I enable oplock and disable kernel oplock, what will happen? How to
produce the conflict?

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gerald Carter [mailto:gcarter at valinux.com]
>Sent: 17 September 2001 13:21
>To: Juer Lee
>Cc: ian j hart; samba at lists.samba.org
>Subject: RE: kernel oplocks 2.2.1a
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>On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Juer Lee wrote:
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>> I think there still are some problems with OPLOCK. I installed
>> Samba2.2.1a on my SuseLinux7.1, my kernel is using 2.4.5 now. I tried
>> to disable/enable 'kernel oplocks' here.Two results I got:
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>> 1.Enable 'kernel oplocks' In log message, I got 'set_file_lock: got
>> kernel oplock on file ...' and 'set_file_oplock: granted oplock on
>> file ...', If I only edited that file and saved it on Samba client, I
>> got 'oplock_break: returning success for dev = ...' more
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>> 2.Disable 'kernel oplocks' In log message, I got 'set_file_oplock:
>> granted oplock on file ...' only... If I edit that file and saved it
>> on Samba client, I couldn't get same message as section 1.
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>> What I cannot understand is in section 1, why I got 'oplock_break:
>> returning success ...' even I haven't opened that same file under
>> Linux box, or NFS client side ..
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>I don't think this is a problem.  The server got an another
>exclusive oplock request from a client.  You should see this
>in the logs.  I can't comment more without the full logs.
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>cheers, jerry
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