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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [patch 13/13] lseek speedup
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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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