Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:06:00 +0530 | From | Dipankar Sarma <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Refcounting of objects part of a lockfree collection |
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On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 01:32:04PM +0530, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote: > 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
1.5 Convert files_struct to use kref
> 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
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