Re: [PATCH 2/4] Convert epoll to a bitlock

[Davide Libenzi]

On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Davide Libenzi wrote:

> On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > Well.  We _could_ whack part of this nut with my usual hammer: protect
> > f_flags with file->f_dentry->d_inode->i_lock.  IIRC there was some
> > objection to that - performance?
> 
> If you meant it for epoll, that uses a single shared inode, that'd turn to 
> be a global lock.

Course you couldn't have meant it for epoll, so forget about the comment :)


- Davide


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