Re: [patch] epoll use a single inode ...

[Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>]

On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 
> 
> On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > 
> > I'm OK with everything that avoid code duplication due to those fake 
> > inodes. The change can be localized inside the existing API, so it doesn't 
> > really affect me externally.
> 
> Can you try with the first patch version that doesn't do anything special 
> at all, and just uses a single dentry.
> 
> Yeah, the dentry name will be identical, and so you would see something 
> like "7 -> signalfd:signalfd" when you do "ls -l /proc/<pid>/fd/" on a 
> task that has such a special file descriptor (with no way to tell 
> different timerfd's and signalfd's apart), but I think it's better to 
> start off simple than to overdesign things.
> 
> And trying to tell them apart sounds a bit like overdesign, if only 
> because I really don't see why anybody would really *care*. So it's a 
> timer for poll/select/epoll - why care about anything else?

The code would not change/shrink much with the single dentry. We'd save 
memory, and we'd lose the capability of seeing aino:[CLASS].
Both ways are fine with me.



- Davide