* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (i definitely remember having written code for that too, but i cannot > find that in the archives. hm.) In theory we could avoid _all_ > fd-bitmap overhead as well and use a per-process list/pool of struct > file buffers plus a maximum-fd field as the 'non-linear fd allocator' > (at the price of only deallocating them at process exit time).
btw., this also allows mostly-lockless fd allocation, which would probably benefit threaded apps too. (we can just recycle it from a per-CPU list of cached fds for that process) Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/