Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:42:39 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/5] VFS: Do (nearly) lockless generic_file_llseek |
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On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 02:40:14PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thursday 16 June 2011 23:07:18 Andi Kleen wrote: > > So still need a lock, but can use a cheap local one. > > > > This patch implements this new scheme in generic_file_llseek. > > I dropped generic_file_llseek_unlocked and changed all callers. > > What about default_llseek? If you change generic_file_llseek, you should > probably change that, too.
That's used by a lot of drivers, and since I cannot audit them all I chose to be conservative. not sure it's ever performance critical anyways?
-Andi
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