From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 10:44:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 10:44:22 -0500 Received: from carisma.slowglass.com ([195.224.96.167]:19211 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 10:44:21 -0500 Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 15:54:56 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: "Martin J. Bligh" Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] 6/6 cacheline align files_lock Message-ID: <20030308155456.B28797@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , "Martin J. Bligh" , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel , Andrew Morton References: <52550000.1047080176@flay> <20030308073535.B24272@infradead.org> <393020000.1047138100@[10.10.2.4]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <393020000.1047138100@[10.10.2.4]>; from mbligh@aracnet.com on Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 07:41:42AM -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 07:41:42AM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > It seems to lock several different things though - free lists, tty lists, > etc, etc. I could break it up to one per list, but that means taking two > locks to shift between lists, which I'd prefer not to do if possible. The free list should go away - we have slab for that. The tty stuff should get a per-tty lock.