Re: [PATCH 2/4] Convert epoll to a bitlock

Davide Libenzi
2009-02-04T16:52:00Z

On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 04:19:31PM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> > 1) Use i_lock to protect accesses to f_flags. This would enable some
> > BKL usage to be removed, but would not fix fasync.
>
> What about just turning f_ep_lock into f_lock and using it?

Looks like a good idea.

- Davide