From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] open: add close_range()
Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 20:20:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190521192009.GK17978@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <28114.1558456227@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 05:30:27PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> If we can live with close_from(int first) rather than close_range(), then this
> can perhaps be done a lot more efficiently by:
>
> new = alloc_fdtable(first);
> spin_lock(&files->file_lock);
> old = files_fdtable(files);
> copy_fds(new, old, 0, first - 1);
> rcu_assign_pointer(files->fdt, new);
> spin_unlock(&files->file_lock);
> clear_fds(old, 0, first - 1);
> close_fdt_from(old, first);
> kfree_rcu(old);
I really hate to think how that would interact with POSIX locks...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-21 19:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-21 11:34 [PATCH 1/2] open: add close_range() Christian Brauner
2019-05-21 11:34 ` [PATCH 2/2] tests: add close_range() tests Christian Brauner
2019-05-21 12:09 ` [PATCH 1/2] open: add close_range() Florian Weimer
2019-05-21 13:04 ` Christian Brauner
2019-05-21 13:10 ` Florian Weimer
2019-05-21 13:18 ` Christian Brauner
2019-05-21 13:23 ` Christian Brauner
2019-05-21 13:07 ` Marc Gonzalez
2019-05-21 13:12 ` Christian Brauner
2019-05-21 15:00 ` Al Viro
2019-05-21 16:53 ` Christian Brauner
2019-05-21 16:30 ` David Howells
2019-05-21 16:41 ` Christian Brauner
2019-05-21 20:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-05-22 8:12 ` Christian Brauner
2019-05-21 19:20 ` Al Viro [this message]
2019-05-21 19:59 ` Matthew Wilcox
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