On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 8:52 AM Jens Axboe <ax...@kernel.dk> wrote:
>
> Only potential downside is that it does make file references more
> expensive for other syscalls, since you now have a shared file table.
> But probably not something to worry about here?
Would the vhost user worker user processes ever be otherwise single-threaded?
I'd *assume* that a vhost user is already doing its own threads. But
maybe that's a completely bogus assumption. I don't actually use any
of this, so...
Because you are obviously 100% right that if you're otherwise
single-threaded, then a CLONE_FILES kernel helper thread will cause
the extra cost for file descriptor lookup/free due to all the race
prevention.
Linus
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