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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 13/13] lseek speedup
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 14:27:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020717142725.B2645@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D35A024.1635E12E@zip.com.au>; from akpm@zip.com.au on Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 09:49:40AM -0700

On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 09:49:40AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> But protection of struct file should not be via any per-inode thing.

Why not make use of set_64bit instead of using a spinlock?  It might 
need a companion get_64bit, but at least on 64 bit machines they could  
be defined to use a direct load/store.

		-ben
-- 
"You will be reincarnated as a toad; and you will be much happier."

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-07-17 18:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-17  5:31 [patch 13/13] lseek speedup Andrew Morton
2002-07-17  9:45 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-07-17 16:18   ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-17 16:20     ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-07-17 16:49       ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-17 18:07         ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-07-22  7:16           ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-22  7:43             ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-07-17 18:27         ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2002-07-17 10:54 ` Anton Altaparmakov

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