Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Looking at the patches, this
is *much* more straightforward than your previous patch,
is *much* more straightforward than your previous patch,
It adds refcounting to aio_iocb, but that's *much* better than messing
up every other subsystem.
up every other subsystem.
Or is there some follow-up patches that are pending but you didn't post that are the painful part? Because the diffstat says that this second version is *way* less painful, at about 200 lines of code in a couple of files, mostly aio, vs ~700 lines of changes all over the place, together with a performance regression.
place, together with a performance regression.
Linus
Linus
Linus
up every other subsystem.
Or is there some follow-up patches that are pending but you didn't post that are the painful part? Because the diffstat says that this second version is *way* less painful, at about 200 lines of code in a couple of files, mostly aio, vs ~700 lines of changes all over the place, together with a performance regression.
place, together with a performance regression.
Linus
Linus
Linus