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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@in.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dipankar@in.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] Refcounting of objects part of a lockfree collection
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 00:07:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040714070700.GA12579@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040714045345.GA1220@obelix.in.ibm.com>

On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 10:23:50AM +0530, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:
> 
> The attatched patch provides infrastructure for refcounting of objects
> in a rcu protected collection.

This is really close to the kref implementation.  Why not just use that
instead?

Oh, and I think you need to use atomic_set() instead of initializing the
atomic_t by hand.

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-07-14  7:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-14  4:53 [RFC] Refcounting of objects part of a lockfree collection Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2004-07-14  4:56 ` [RFC] Lock free fd lookup Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2004-07-14 15:17   ` Chris Wright
2004-07-15 14:22     ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-15 16:10       ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-07-15 16:22         ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-15 16:34         ` Chris Wright
2004-07-16  5:38           ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2004-07-16  6:27       ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-17  0:55         ` Keith Owens
2004-07-17  1:19           ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-17  2:12             ` Keith Owens
2004-07-17  2:34               ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-17  2:28             ` Keith Owens
2004-07-17  3:16               ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-17 13:48     ` Peter Zijlstra
2004-07-14  7:07 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-07-14  8:26   ` [RFC] Refcounting of objects part of a lockfree collection Dipankar Sarma
2004-07-14 14:26     ` Greg KH
2004-07-14 15:22       ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-07-14 17:03         ` Greg KH
2004-07-14 17:49           ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-07-14 18:03             ` Greg KH
2004-07-15  6:21       ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2004-07-15  6:56         ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-07-14  8:57   ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2004-07-14 17:08     ` Greg KH
2004-07-14 18:17       ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-07-15  8:02       ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2004-07-15  9:36         ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-07-16 14:32         ` Greg KH
2004-07-16 15:50           ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-07-14 10:24 Oleg Nesterov

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