Re: [PATCH 1/5] VFS: Do (nearly) lockless generic_file_llseek

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Fri Jun 17 2011 - 08:40:40 EST


On Thursday 16 June 2011 23:07:18 Andi Kleen wrote:
> So still need a lock, but can use a cheap local one.
>
> This patch implements this new scheme in generic_file_llseek.
> I dropped generic_file_llseek_unlocked and changed all callers.

What about default_llseek? If you change generic_file_llseek, you should
probably change that, too.

Arnd
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