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From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>,
	Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>,
	lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH] use rcu for fasync_lock
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 17:09:09 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040103010909.GI1882@matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040102224150.GA5864@mail.shareable.org>

On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 10:41:50PM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> The best way is to maintain poll state in each "struct file".  The
> order of complexity for the bitmap scan is still significant, but
> ->poll calls are limited to the number of transitions which actually
> happen.

What's the drawback to this approach?

Where is the poll state kept now?

> I think somebody, maybe Richard Gooch, has a patch to do this that's
> several years old by now.

Why wasn't it merged?  

Implementation issues?

  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-03  1:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-20 18:20 [RFC,PATCH] use rcu for fasync_lock Manfred Spraul
2003-12-20 21:10 ` [Lse-tech] " Stephen Hemminger
2003-12-20 21:35   ` Manfred Spraul
2003-12-21 11:36 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-12-21 12:40   ` Manfred Spraul
2003-12-21 14:14     ` Jamie Lokier
2003-12-21 14:59       ` Manfred Spraul
2003-12-21 15:08         ` Jamie Lokier
2004-01-02 21:15       ` Bill Davidsen
2004-01-02 22:41         ` Jamie Lokier
2004-01-03  1:09           ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2004-01-03 21:28             ` Jamie Lokier
2004-01-04 19:01               ` Ingo Oeser
2004-01-04 19:20                 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-05 21:17                   ` Ingo Oeser
2004-01-05 22:24                     ` Davide Libenzi
2003-12-21 15:14     ` Davide Libenzi
2003-12-21 15:17       ` Davide Libenzi
2003-12-21 15:28       ` Jamie Lokier
2003-12-21 18:38 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2003-12-21 19:14   ` Manfred Spraul
2003-12-21 20:51     ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-21 21:08       ` Manfred Spraul
2003-12-21 21:19         ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-21 21:54           ` Manfred Spraul
2003-12-21 22:05             ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-25  1:21               ` Manfred Spraul
2003-12-25 15:11                 ` OGAWA Hirofumi

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