Eric Dumazet <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > This patch changes the file counting by removing the filp_count_lock.
> > Instead we use a separate atomic_t, nr_files, for now and all
> > accesses to it are through get_nr_files() api. In the sysctl
> > handler for nr_files, we populate files_stat.nr_files before returning
> > to user.
> >
> > Counting files as an when they are created and destroyed (as opposed
> > to inside slab) allows us to correctly count open files with RCU.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <[email protected]>
> > ---
>
> Well...
>
> I am using a patch that seems sligthly better : It removes the filp_count_lock
> as yours but introduces a percpu variable, and a lazy nr_files . (Its value
> can be off with a delta of +/- 16*num_possible_cpus()
Yes, I think that is better.
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