Messages in this thread | | | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/4] Convert epoll to a bitlock | Date | Wed, 4 Feb 2009 18:20:18 +1100 |
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On Wednesday 04 February 2009 18:13:20 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?
Ah, yes I was going to say that too, but I confused i_lock with i_mutex because it sounded like Jon needed a sleeping lock here?
Agree f_lock would be good. It might come in handy for other things too.
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