Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 03/11] fuse: add reference counting to fuse_file | From | Miklos Szeredi <> | Date | Mon, 06 Aug 2007 12:59:14 +0200 |
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> On Friday 03 August 2007, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> > > > > Make lifetime of 'struct fuse_file' independent from 'struct file' by > > adding a reference counter and destructor. > > What about using krefs to implement that?
Thanks for the suggestion. I'm aware of kref, but I don't see the huge advantage over using the raw atomic interface.
> This will also fix the missing smp_barriers,
Why are the barriers needed? The documentation doesn't say anything about that.
> is very simple, saves code, makes your life easier and is a well > known known kernel infrastructure :-)
I think it saves one line, and adds another, for a total of zero lines saved ;)
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