Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754001AbZA1D5w (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:57:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752434AbZA1D5n (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:57:43 -0500 Received: from vena.lwn.net ([206.168.112.25]:34724 "EHLO vena.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752397AbZA1D5m (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:57:42 -0500 Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:57:39 -0700 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen , hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] Remove fasync() BKL usage, take 3325 Message-ID: <20090127205739.1384343f@bike.lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <20090128031439.GA11025@redhat.com> References: <20090115153211.663df310@bike.lwn.net> <20090122065104.2787df2d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090122203248.GA20159@infradead.org> <20090123045646.GK15750@one.firstfloor.org> <20090127165504.53ed7a2d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090128031439.GA11025@redhat.com> Organization: LWN.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.15.1; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 669 Lines: 17 On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:14:39 +0100 Oleg Nesterov wrote: > I'll try to make the patch tomorrow, but the problem is that I am not > sure this is not too ugly. FWIW, I'm partway through a new attempt using bitops for f_flags, moving FASYNC flag handling into fasync_helper(), and doing away with additional locks altogether. I have to get past the publication deadline before I can finish it, though. jon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/