From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] Remove fasync() BKL usage, take 3325 Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:55:41 -0500 Message-ID: <20090128175541.GA7074@infradead.org> References: <20090115153211.663df310@bike.lwn.net> <20090122065104.2787df2d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090122203248.GA20159@infradead.org> <20090123045646.GK15750@one.firstfloor.org> <20090127165504.53ed7a2d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090128031439.GA11025@redhat.com> <20090128173618.GA3174@infradead.org> <20090128104414.09aee3f9@bike.lwn.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090128104414.09aee3f9-vw3g6Xz/EtPk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-api-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Oleg Nesterov , Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, viro-3bDd1+5oDREiFSDQTTA3OLVCufUGDwFn@public.gmane.org, linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, alan-qBU/x9rampVanCEyBjwyrvXRex20P6io@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:44:14AM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > If others disagree, and using bitops is not an idea which will fly, I'd > sure like to know sooner rather than later. There are more than enough use cases that have large numbers of open files (e.g. various high-end network servers). While it might not be as sewer as for inodes I think it's really bad idea to do it for no reason. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html