Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Is module refcounting racy? | From | Eric Dumazet <> | Date | Tue, 06 Apr 2010 08:19:23 +0200 |
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Le mardi 06 avril 2010 à 15:05 +1000, Nick Piggin a écrit :
> Also if anyone else is looking at a way to do _really_ scalable > refcounting elsewhere, this could be a good template (I certainly looked > here first when trying to get ideas for vfsmount refcounting).
Yes, nice trick Nick, I was thinking about it for network code :)
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
I confess the smp_wmb() in module_put() bothered me a bit until I saw it was only a barrier() on X86 (if !CONFIG_X86_OOSTORE)
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