From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] removes filp_count_lock and changes nr_files type to atomic_t
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:56:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050825145608.GA15733@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <430DDAF2.6030601@yahoo.com.au>
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 12:51:30AM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Eric Dumazet wrote:
> >Nick Piggin a ?crit :
> >
>
> >>Would you just be able to add the atomic sysctl handler that
> >>Christoph suggested?
> >>
> >
> >Quite a lot of work indeed, and it would force to convert 3 int
> >(nr_files, nr_free_files, max_files) to 3 atomic_t. I feel bad
> >introducing a lot of sysctl rework for a tiny change (removing
> >filp_count_lock)
> >
>
> True, I didn't notice that.
Well, it would with a generic atomic_t handler. With a special
handler for this situation it's not needed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-25 14:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-24 21:46 [patch] Additions to .data.read_mostly section Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-08-24 22:38 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-08-25 7:56 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-08-25 8:45 ` [PATCH] removes filp_count_lock and changes nr_files type to atomic_t Eric Dumazet
2005-08-25 9:05 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-08-25 9:20 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-08-25 9:31 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-08-25 9:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-25 9:17 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-08-25 9:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-25 10:41 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-08-25 11:11 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-25 12:26 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-08-25 14:51 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-25 14:56 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-08-25 15:13 ` Eric Dumazet
2005-08-25 18:19 ` Dipankar Sarma
2005-08-25 18:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-26 1:16 ` Nick Piggin
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