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From: Ken Preslan <kpreslan@redhat.com>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	viro@zenII.uk.linux.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: make flock_lock_file_wait static
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 02:35:24 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050110083524.GA9750@potassium.msp.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1105310650.11315.19.camel@lade.trondhjem.org>

On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 05:44:10PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> su den 09.01.2005 Klokka 19:42 (+0000) skreiv Arjan van de Ven:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > the patch below makes flock_lock_file_wait static, because it is only used
> > (once) in fs/locks.c. Making it static allows gcc to generate better code
> > (partial or entirely inlining it, gcc 3.4 also optimizes the calling
> > convention for static functions which are guaranteed only local to the file)
> 
> Veto. That function is also there for those filesystems that need to
> mirror their locks in the VFS. I believe the GFS people are already
> using it (they implemented all this anyway), and sooner or later, NFS is
> going to have to do it too...

I second the veto.  GFS does use this interface.

-- 
Ken Preslan <kpreslan@redhat.com>


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-01-10  8:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-09 19:42 make flock_lock_file_wait static Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-09 22:44 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-01-10  8:19   ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-10  8:38     ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-10 14:23       ` Trond Myklebust
2005-01-11  8:31         ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-11 19:16           ` Trond Myklebust
2005-01-11 19:36             ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-25 18:58               ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-26  3:10                 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-26  9:01                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-26 16:07                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-26 18:59                     ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-28 14:14                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-01-28 18:50                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-28 19:01                         ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-01-26  9:43                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-26  9:51                   ` Al Viro
2005-01-26  9:55                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-26 10:00                       ` Al Viro
2005-01-15 21:35             ` Adrian Bunk
2005-01-15 22:07               ` Trond Myklebust
2005-01-10  8:35   ` Ken Preslan [this message]
2005-01-10  8:44     ` Arjan van de Ven

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