On Fri 19-01-18 12:37:51, Christian König wrote: [...] > The per file descriptor badness is/was just the much easier approach to > solve the issue, because the drivers already knew which client is currently > using which buffer objects. > > I of course agree that file descriptors can be shared between processes and > are by themselves not killable. But at least for our graphics driven use > case I don't see much of a problem killing all processes when a file > descriptor is used by more than one at the same time. Ohh, I absolutely see why you have chosen this way for your particular usecase. I am just arguing that this would rather be more generic to be merged. If there is absolutely no other way around we can consider it but right now I do not see that all other options have been considered properly. Especially when the fd based approach is basically wrong for almost anybody else. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
