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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] removes filp_count_lock and changes nr_files type to atomic_t
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:56:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050825145608.GA15733@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <430DDAF2.6030601@yahoo.com.au>

On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 12:51:30AM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Eric Dumazet wrote:
> >Nick Piggin a ?crit :
> >
> 
> >>Would you just be able to add the atomic sysctl handler that
> >>Christoph suggested?
> >>
> >
> >Quite a lot of work indeed, and it would force to convert 3 int 
> >(nr_files, nr_free_files, max_files) to 3 atomic_t. I feel bad 
> >introducing a lot of sysctl rework for a tiny change (removing 
> >filp_count_lock)
> >
> 
> True, I didn't notice that.

Well, it would with a generic atomic_t handler.  With a special
handler for this situation it's not needed.


  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-25 14:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-24 21:46 [patch] Additions to .data.read_mostly section Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-08-24 22:38 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-08-25  7:56 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-08-25  8:45   ` [PATCH] removes filp_count_lock and changes nr_files type to atomic_t Eric Dumazet
2005-08-25  9:05     ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-08-25  9:20       ` Eric Dumazet
2005-08-25  9:31         ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-08-25  9:08     ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-25  9:17       ` Eric Dumazet
2005-08-25  9:23         ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-25 10:41           ` Eric Dumazet
2005-08-25 11:11             ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-25 12:26               ` Eric Dumazet
2005-08-25 14:51                 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-25 14:56                   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-08-25 15:13                   ` Eric Dumazet
2005-08-25 18:19                     ` Dipankar Sarma
2005-08-25 18:36                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-26  1:16                     ` Nick Piggin

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