Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:55:55 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: RFC: Fix f_flags races without the BKL |
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On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 05:59:56AM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:27:32 +0100 > Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote: > > > I would prefer O_LOCK_FLAGS bit too. The global lock is not very nice > > and I don't doubt someone will come up with a workload which > > pounds on it. > > Seems hard to imagine that it would be worse than the longstanding BKL > situation.
As long as noone else uses it too BKL is faster than a mutex.
-Andi
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