2007/456 Vnode Specific Data

Calum Mackay Calum.Mackay at sun.com
Wed Aug 15 16:37:12 PDT 2007


hi Pawel, thanks much for the comments.

> ZFS recently started to use TSD, so I needed to implement something
> similar for the FreeBSD kernel, but because there are more places that
> need object specific data (in FreeBSD: threads, jails, network
> interfaces, maybe vnodes in the future), I just generalized the idea to
> avoid code duplication and called it Object Specific Data. 

This sounds very interesting, but I think this is providing more than we 
need just now, for this particular case.

We will take a look at it, going forward.

thanks again for the pointer.

cheers,
calum.



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