public inbox for linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "Mulyadi Santosa" <mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com>
To: "Manish Katiyar" <mkatiyar@gmail.com>
Cc: "Kernel Newbies" <kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Using tgid instead of pid in ext3_find_near()
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:57:05 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f284c33d0804281757x7433465h8828eb90a8d762ef@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ea11fea30804281207u5fe9e96bod992dc2bb2d3fc79@mail.gmail.com>

Ehmmm....

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:07 AM, Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  In the function ext*_find_near() we are using pid to have the locality
>  of the blocks for the files which have same functionality. Shouldn't
>  we be using "current->tgid" here instead ??
>
>  410 static ext3_fsblk_t ext3_find_near(struct inode *inode, Indirect *ind)
>   411 {
>  .........
>  ........
>  433  colour = (current->pid % 16) *
>   434    (EXT3_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(inode->i_sb) / 16);
>  ........

Because each threads even on same thread group doesn't need to share
open file descriptors?

regards,

Mulyadi.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-29  0:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-28 19:07 Using tgid instead of pid in ext3_find_near() Manish Katiyar
2008-04-29  0:57 ` Mulyadi Santosa [this message]
2008-04-29  4:23   ` Manish Katiyar

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=f284c33d0804281757x7433465h8828eb90a8d762ef@mail.gmail.com \
    --to=mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com \
    --cc=kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org \
    --cc=linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=mkatiyar@gmail.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox