Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:55:41 -0500 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH, RFC] Remove fasync() BKL usage, take 3325 |
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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.
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