Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/13] Introduce seqnum_ops | From | Shuah Khan <> | Date | Wed, 11 Nov 2020 09:03:20 -0700 |
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On 11/10/20 9:33 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 12:53:26PM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote: >> There are a number of atomic_t usages in the kernel where atomic_t api >> is used strictly for counting sequence numbers and other statistical >> counters and not for managing object lifetime. > > We already have something in Linux called a sequence counter, and it's > different from this. ID counter? instance number? monotonic_t? stat_t? >
No results for monotonic_t or stat_t. Can you give me a pointer to what your referring to.
thanks, -- Shuah
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