Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Wed, 13 Nov 2002 23:34:07 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Modules and the Interfaces who Love Them (Take I) |
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Rusty Russell wrote:
> Slow: Your approach where every interface has to do reference counts > even though they're only useful for modules makes every interface > slow, whether they are using modules or not. You can't make them > fast, because that would make every interface NR_CPUS * > sizeof(cacheline) larger.
(tangent alert)
Objects controlled by interfaces typically should be ref-counted... life in the kernel is slowly getting better WRT this, but we're not there yet. In any case, the ref counts help, not hurt.
Jeff
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