From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk,
linux-api@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] Remove fasync() BKL usage, take 3325
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:55:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090128175541.GA7074@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090128104414.09aee3f9@bike.lwn.net>
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:44:14AM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> If others disagree, and using bitops is not an idea which will fly, I'd
> sure like to know sooner rather than later.
There are more than enough use cases that have large numbers of open
files (e.g. various high-end network servers). While it might not be
as sewer as for inodes I think it's really bad idea to do it for no
reason.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-28 17:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-15 22:32 [PATCH, RFC] Remove fasync() BKL usage, take 3325 Jonathan Corbet
2009-01-22 14:51 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-22 16:09 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-23 5:21 ` Jonathan Corbet
2009-01-22 20:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-01-23 4:56 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-28 0:53 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-28 0:55 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-28 3:14 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-01-28 3:57 ` Jonathan Corbet
2009-01-28 4:23 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-01-28 14:13 ` Jonathan Corbet
2009-01-28 17:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-01-28 17:44 ` Jonathan Corbet
2009-01-28 17:55 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2009-01-28 18:13 ` Matt Mackall
2009-01-28 21:05 ` Jonathan Corbet
2009-01-28 18:14 ` David Daney
2009-01-29 14:37 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-23 5:15 ` Jonathan Corbet
2009-01-23 5:31 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-23 5:45 ` Matt Mackall
2009-01-23 6:15 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-23 10:45 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2009-01-23 5:54 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-23 6:01 ` Jonathan Corbet
2009-01-23 6:57 ` Andrew Morton
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