Re: [patch] epoll use a single inode ...

[Davide Libenzi]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> I would definitly *love* saving dentries for pipes (and sockets too), but how
> are you going to get the inode ?

I was not planning to touch anything but epoll, signalfd and timerfd 
files.


> pipes()/sockets() can use read()/write()/rw_verify_area() and thus need
> file->f_path.dentry->d_inode (so each pipe needs a separate dentry)

Currently, they use a single inode, and multiple dentries (to give the 
name of the class). But this could be changed to a single dentry like 
Linus was suggesting. I'll wait for Al's reply before doing anything.
Memory saving can be something, on top of the already big one of avoiding 
code duplication.



- Davide


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