linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support more operations

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Date:	Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:34:33 +0100
From:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:	miklos@...redi.hu
CC:	tj@...nel.org, miklos@...redi.hu, fuse-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	greg@...ah.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support more operations

On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Tejun Heo wrote:

> Hmm... yeah, allocating handle from kernel should work fine, but I
> 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
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