Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 2 Aug 2004 17:12:35 +0100 | | From | viro@parcelfa ... | | Subject | Re: [patchset] Lockfree fd lookup 1 of 5 |
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On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 02:38:25PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 03:43:52PM +0530, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote: > > Here's the first patch. This patch 'shrinks' struct kref by removing > > the release pointer in the struct kref. GregKH has applied this to his tree > > What's the advantage of this kref API over opencoded atomic_t usage?
More interesting question is how much does it win compared to simple switch to rwlock? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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