Hi,
"Michael S. Zick":
> Was diddling with the code to give the above a try and the eyes noticed this:
> (in inotify_read function above the patched one)
:::
> Which skips the unlock if the list is not empty; continuing in the code;
> where there are various conditional paths that look as if it can be unlocked
> twice.
>
> Warning: My "C" skills are at a low ebb - someone else please take a look.
The mutex lock in inotify_read in linux-2.6.27 are balanced. We don't
need to care.
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> This is not on a auFS patched kernel - but - -
>
> Makes a very noticeable difference!
> Even with Firefox trying to display the black hole of the simplynetbook.com
> home page, KDE/X11 continues to respond.
> There is still a visible delay to cleaning up a closed window, but only
> measured in seconds or less - they no longer
> act as if they had gone out to lunch. ;)
>
> That one needs to go upstream.
Actually I have posted to LKML and inotify maintainers, but there is no
reply (yet). See <http://marc.info/?t=122468297600004&r=1&w=2>.
Junjiro R. Okajima
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