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Date:	Fri, 9 Mar 2007 11:11:13 -0500
From:	Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org>
To:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
Cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hch@...radead.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, serue@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] revoke: add f_light flag for struct file

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 12:13:35PM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Then just drop the fget_light() 'optimisation' and always take a reference 
> (atomic on f_count) regardless of single-thread or not. Instead of dirtying 
> f_light, just do the straightforward thing and be with it.
> 
> (that is : fget_light() = fget() = no more keeping fput_needed everywhere, and 
> convoluted things in some dark sides of the kernel.

And it makes things rather slower for a lot of single threaded applications 
on modern systems.  Yes, fget_light can be done much more cleanly, but please 
don't go around ripping out optimizations just because.

		-ben
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