On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hmm... yeah, allocating handle from kernel should work fine, but I
quoted text > wouldn't worry about race here. We can just use 64 bit and guarantee
> that any handle won't be reused ever.
Btw, the protocol could be simplified even more by getting rid of all
acknowledgements:
<- POLL-request(pollhandle) (alloc handle)
...
-> POLL-notification(pollhandle)
...
<- POLL_RELEASE(pollhandle)
So normally ->poll() wouldn't have to sleep at all. If the POLL
request fails for some reason, userspace just sends a notification
with the respective error.
Miklos
--
unsubscribe notice To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to
majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at
http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at
http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Messages in current thread:
Re: [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support more operations , Miklos Szeredi , (Thu Nov 13, 8:34 am)