From: Aaron Faanes <dafrito@gmail.com>
To: John McCutchan <john@johnmccutchan.com>,
Robert Love <rlove@rlove.org>, Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Aaron Faanes <dafrito@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Documentation: Reword example about inotify's fd-per-instance design
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 19:35:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1303691704-5726-4-git-send-email-dafrito@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1303691704-5726-1-git-send-email-dafrito@gmail.com>
Made the final example read more clearly by splitting it into a
couple more sentences.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Faanes <dafrito@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt | 6 +++---
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt
index 8d8cba1..fbb50ad 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt
@@ -246,9 +246,9 @@ A: An fd-per-watch quickly consumes more file descriptors than are allowed,
- 1024 is still too low. ;-)
- When you talk about designing a file change notification system that
- scales to 1000s of directories, juggling 1000s of fd's just does not seem
- to be the right interface. It is too heavy.
+ For example, consider the design of a file change notification system that
+ scales to 1000s of directories. Juggling 1000s of fd's in this case is just
+ not the right interface. It is too heavy.
Additionally, it _is_ possible to have more than one instance and
juggle more than one queue and thus more than one associated fd. There
--
1.7.4.4
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-25 0:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-25 0:35 [PATCH 0/3] Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt edits Aaron Faanes
2011-04-25 0:35 ` [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: remove some spurious spaces in inotify.txt Aaron Faanes
2011-04-25 0:52 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-04-25 0:35 ` [PATCH 2/3] Documentation: Correct a couple missing words " Aaron Faanes
2011-04-25 0:53 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-04-25 0:35 ` Aaron Faanes [this message]
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