Re: [patch 13/13] lseek speedup

From: Benjamin LaHaise (bcrl@redhat.com)
Date: Wed Jul 17 2002 - 13:27:25 EST

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On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 09:49:40AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> But protection of struct file should not be via any per-inode thing.

Why not make use of set_64bit instead of using a spinlock? It might
need a companion get_64bit, but at least on 64 bit machines they could
be defined to use a direct load/store.

-ben

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