Re: Using tgid instead of pid in ext3_find_near()

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Ehmmm....

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:07 AM, Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  In the function ext*_find_near() we are using pid to have the locality
>  of the blocks for the files which have same functionality. Shouldn't
>  we be using "current->tgid" here instead ??
>
>  410 static ext3_fsblk_t ext3_find_near(struct inode *inode, Indirect *ind)
>   411 {
>  .........
>  ........
>  433  colour = (current->pid % 16) *
>   434    (EXT3_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(inode->i_sb) / 16);
>  ........

Because each threads even on same thread group doesn't need to share
open file descriptors?

regards,

Mulyadi.

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