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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@intel.com>,
	Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: flihp@twobit.us, jgg@ziepe.ca, linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] tpm: add support for nonblocking operation
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 11:48:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1533926908.3143.6.camel@HansenPartnership.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ad02d89f-31d3-7d9f-4580-daf759c8d837@intel.com>

On Fri, 2018-08-10 at 11:21 -0700, Tadeusz Struk wrote:
> and the feedback I got from Jason was:
> 
> "I wonder if it is worth creating this when the first file is
> opened.. Lots of systems have TPMs but few use the userspace.."
> 
> so I changed this to allocate the WQ on first open. I think it makes
> sense, but I leave it to you to decide.

If the reason is to not create a wq unless it's needed, shouldn't the
condition actually be first open with flag O_NONBLOCK?

James


  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-10 18:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-07 20:27 [PATCH v4 0/2] tpm: add support for nonblocking operation Tadeusz Struk
2018-08-07 20:27 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] tpm: add ptr to the tpm_space struct to file_priv Tadeusz Struk
2018-08-10 17:27   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-08-10 18:05     ` Tadeusz Struk
2018-08-10 18:43       ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-08-07 20:27 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] tpm: add support for nonblocking operation Tadeusz Struk
2018-08-10 17:43   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2018-08-10 18:21     ` Tadeusz Struk
2018-08-10 18:48       ` James Bottomley [this message]
2018-08-10 18:56         ` Tadeusz Struk
2018-08-10 19:00           ` James Bottomley
2018-08-10 19:14             ` Tadeusz Struk
2018-08-12 10:39       ` Jarkko Sakkinen

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