On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 12:51:30AM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > Eric Dumazet wrote: > >Nick Piggin a ?crit : > > > > >>Would you just be able to add the atomic sysctl handler that > >>Christoph suggested? > >> > > > >Quite a lot of work indeed, and it would force to convert 3 int > >(nr_files, nr_free_files, max_files) to 3 atomic_t. I feel bad > >introducing a lot of sysctl rework for a tiny change (removing > >filp_count_lock) > > > > True, I didn't notice that. Well, it would with a generic atomic_t handler. With a special handler for this situation it's not needed. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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