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SubjectRe: [RFC] Refcounting of objects part of a lockfree collection
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

Thanks
Dipankar
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