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: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 07:32:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040716143235.GC8282@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040715080204.GC1312@obelix.in.ibm.com>
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 01:32:04PM +0530, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:
> The naming is bad, I agree. But as Dipankar pointed out earlier, there
> was no kref when I did this.
No offence meant, but lib/kref.c has been in the kernel tree since
2.6.5-rc1 which was released 4 months ago. Did refcount.h take 4 months
to get released? :)
> We (Dipankar and myslef) had a discussion
> and decided:
> 1. I will make a patch to shrink kref and feed it to Greg
> 2. Add new set kref api for lockfree refcounting --
> kref_lf_xxx. (kref_lf_get, kref_lf_get_rcu etc.,)
kref_*_rcu() as Dipankar noted is much nicer.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-16 14:37 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 ` [RFC] Refcounting of objects part of a lockfree collection Greg KH
2004-07-14 8:26 ` 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 [this message]
2004-07-16 15:50 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
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2004-07-14 10:24 Oleg Nesterov
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