From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030333AbXCHI5H (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2007 03:57:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030347AbXCHI5H (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2007 03:57:07 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:57207 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030333AbXCHI5G (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2007 03:57:06 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 08:56:31 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Eric Dumazet Cc: Linus Torvalds , Davide Libenzi , Avi Kivity , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Al Viro Subject: Re: [patch] epoll use a single inode ... Message-ID: <20070308085631.GA7373@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Eric Dumazet , Linus Torvalds , Davide Libenzi , Avi Kivity , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Al Viro References: <45ED1A3C.6030707@argo.co.il> <45EE6125.3010702@cosmosbay.com> <200703071831.36930.dada1@cosmosbay.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200703071831.36930.dada1@cosmosbay.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This patch needs a lot more documentation. It needs some really big comments on why this should never ever be used for a real filesystem (real as in user mountable), and probably add an assert for that invariant somewhere. Please also update Documentation/filesystems/Locking and Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for it.