Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac9

Alan Cox
2001-06-06T21:45:58Z

> Looks bogus. Independent processes can open the same device
> once for reading and once for writing, now you are serializing
> needlessly these processes. Please revert.

Some of the serializing is not a bug but I agree that patch is not yet
right. Think for example about

thread1 thread2

write
blocks mmap

Also parallel buffer allocations

Alan