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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	dipankar@in.ibm.com, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Subject: Re: [patchset] Lockfree fd lookup 1 of 5
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 14:38:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040802143825.A5073@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040802101350.GC4385@vitalstatistix.in.ibm.com>; from kiran@in.ibm.com on Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 03:43:52PM +0530

On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 03:43:52PM +0530, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:
> Here's the first patch.  This patch 'shrinks' struct kref by removing
> the release pointer in the struct kref.  GregKH has applied this to his tree

What's the advantage of this kref API over opencoded atomic_t usage?


  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-02 13:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-02 10:10 [patchset] Lockfree fd lookup 0 of 5 Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2004-08-02 10:13 ` [patchset] Lockfree fd lookup 1 " Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2004-08-02 13:38   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-08-02 16:12     ` viro
2004-08-03  0:44   ` Greg KH
2004-08-02 10:16 ` [patchset] Lockfree fd lookup 2 " Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2004-08-03  0:43   ` Greg KH
2004-08-03  6:28     ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2004-08-03  6:44   ` Greg KH
2004-08-03  7:41     ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2004-08-02 10:18 ` [patchset] Lockfree fd lookup 0 " Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2004-08-02 10:20 ` [patchset] Lockfree fd lookup 4 " Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2004-08-02 10:23 ` [patchset] Lockfree fd lookup 5 " Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2004-08-02 16:56 ` [patchset] Lockfree fd lookup 0 " viro
2004-08-02 20:07   ` David S. Miller
2004-08-02 21:01     ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-02 23:15       ` David S. Miller
2004-08-03  2:04         ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-03  9:23   ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2004-08-03  9:35     ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2004-08-03 10:17       ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-08-03 10:06     ` viro

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