[linux-cifs-client] Re: What is GetXid/FreeXid supposed to actually do?

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 03:21:07PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> Any objection to just replacing this xid value with the pid or tgid
> instead? Does this xid value give you anything that that doesn't?

Yeah, from all that I can see there is always at most one xid in
use per thread.  So just replacing it with a tgid should work easily.
Even better would be replacing all that ad-hoc debugging with the
ftrace event tracer.