Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Feb 2017 18:07:26 +0100 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/10] On inode::i_count and the usage vs reference count issue |
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On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 08:43:30AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Usage counts are common and useful, so for now they should stay as-is > and if people can came up with a useful primitive for them we can > consider implementing it. > > Trying to shoe-horn everything into refcount_t is a horrible idea.
Sure; and like I said that is a perfectly fine option. I just wanted to see how horrible this ended up.
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