Re: [PATCH] nextfd(2)

On Sun, 2012-04-01 at 15:57 +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:

> +
> +/* Return first opened file descriptor which is >= than the argument. */
> +SYSCALL_DEFINE1(nextfd, unsigned int, fd)
> +{
> +	struct files_struct *files = current->files;
> +	struct fdtable *fdt;
> +
> +	rcu_read_lock();
> +	fdt = files_fdtable(files);
> +	while (fd < fdt->max_fds) {
> +		struct file *file;
> +
> +		file = rcu_dereference_check_fdtable(files, fdt->fd[fd]);
> +		if (file) {
> +			rcu_read_unlock();
> +			return fd;
> +		}
> +		fd++;
> +	}
> +	rcu_read_unlock();
> +	return -ESRCH;
> +}

Interesting idea but what about using fdt->open_fds bitmap to have a
fast search and less cache pollution ?

alloc_fd(start, flags) uses find_next_zero_bit(), you could use
find_next_bit().

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