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DateThu, 17 Aug 2006 15:45:56 +0400
FromKirill Korotaev <>
SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH 2/7] UBC: core (structures, API)
>>+struct user_beancounter
>>+{
>>+	atomic_t		ub_refcount;
> 
> 
> Why not use a struct kref here instead of rolling your own reference
> counting logic?

We need more complex decrement/locking scheme than krefs
provide. e.g. in __put_beancounter() we need
atomic_dec_and_lock_irqsave() semantics for performance optimizations.

Kirill

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