From fe14bd1113d571ec6abd45f3d99dadabc24fd06e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Frans Kaashoek <kaashoek@mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2019 21:02:37 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] a thought

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 labs/lock.html | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/labs/lock.html b/labs/lock.html
index 5eddc58..fe2da45 100644
--- a/labs/lock.html
+++ b/labs/lock.html
@@ -81,6 +81,15 @@ workloads.
   </ul>
 
 <p>Run usertests to see if you don't break anything.
+
+<h2>Lock-free bcache lookup</h2>
+
+<p>Modify <tt>bget</tt> so that succesful lookups don't need to
+  acquire <tt>bcache.lock</tt>.  The challenge is
+  concurrent <tt>brelse</tt>, which modify the list that <tt>bget</tt>
+  traverses.  (Hint: there is no need for <tt>bget</tt> to use the
+  list.)
+  
   
 </body>
 </html>