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SubjectRe: [PATCH 07/17] net: convert sock.sk_refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
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On Wed, 2017-03-22 at 13:25 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 07:03:19PM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
> > Note that we might define two refcount_inc() : One that does whole
> > tests, and refcount_inc_relaxed() that might translate to atomic_inc()
> > on non debug kernels.
>
> So you'd want a duplicate interface, such that most code, which doesn't
> care about refcount performance much, can still have all the tests
> enabled.
>
> But the code that cares about it (and preferably can prove it with
> numbers) can use the other.
>
> I'm also somewhat hesitant to use _relaxed for this distinction, as it
> has a clear meaning in atomics, maybe _nocheck?
>
> Also; what operations do you want _nocheck variants of, only
> refcount_inc() ?

I was mostly thinking of points where we were already checking the value
either before or after the atomic_inc(), using some lazy check (a la
WARN_ON(atomic_read(p) == 0) or something like that.

But admittedly we can replace all these by standard refcount_inc() and
simply provide a CONFIG option to turn off the checks, and let brave
people enable this option.





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