From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266485AbUHBNik (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Aug 2004 09:38:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266498AbUHBNik (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Aug 2004 09:38:40 -0400 Received: from imladris.demon.co.uk ([193.237.130.41]:54025 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266485AbUHBNij (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Aug 2004 09:38:39 -0400 Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 14:38:25 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Ravikiran G Thirumalai Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH , dipankar@in.ibm.com, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk Subject: Re: [patchset] Lockfree fd lookup 1 of 5 Message-ID: <20040802143825.A5073@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Ravikiran G Thirumalai , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH , dipankar@in.ibm.com, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk References: <20040802101053.GB4385@vitalstatistix.in.ibm.com> <20040802101350.GC4385@vitalstatistix.in.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20040802101350.GC4385@vitalstatistix.in.ibm.com>; from kiran@in.ibm.com on Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 03:43:52PM +0530 X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by phoenix.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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?