Re: [PATCH, RFC] Remove fasync() BKL usage, take 3325

Christoph Hellwig
2009-01-28T17:56:25Z

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.