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

[Davide Libenzi]

On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, 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?

Looks like a good idea.


- Davide


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