Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Jul 2004 13:32:04 +0530 | From | Ravikiran G Thirumalai <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Refcounting of objects part of a lockfree collection |
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On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 10:08:00AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > ... > > Close, but not the same. I just had a quick look at krefs. > > Actually, this refrerence count infrastructure I am proposing is not for > > traditional refcounting. > > But you are advertising it as such by calling it a refcount_t and > putting it in a file called refcount.h.
The naming is bad, I agree. But as Dipankar pointed out earlier, there was no kref when I did this. We (Dipankar and myslef) had a discussion and decided: 1. I will make a patch to shrink kref and feed it to Greg 2. Add new set kref api for lockfree refcounting -- kref_lf_xxx. (kref_lf_get, kref_lf_get_rcu etc.,) 3. Change the fd lookup patch to use kref_lf_xxx api
Does that sound ok?
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