Messages in this thread |  | | | From | David Howells <> | | Subject | Re: [4/7] dst: thread pool. | | Date | Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:55:27 +0000 |
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Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> > 2: David Howells' "slow work" infrastructure > > this one is *weird*. The infrastructure deals with object refcounting > somehow.
The slow-work facility keeps a reference on the object you've asked it to call a function to be called upon until it has finished calling that function. This simplifies the object handling code a lot, and allows you to avoid slow-work synchronisation requests in object destructors.
David
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