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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] kref, a tiny, sane, reference count object
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 14:06:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3y8q4dhfz.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1zcH2-KO-11@gated-at.bofh.it> (Greg KH's message of "Sat, 13 Mar 2004 09:30:12 +0100")

Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes:

> Comments are appreciated and welcomed.

I really don't see the advantage of this. Writing the same using
atomic_inc/ atomic_dec_and_test() implicitely is basically as clean,
and you will save the overhead of carrying a release() pointer
around. And the "patterns" for that are easy enough that I doubt
people will get it wrong.

-Andi



       reply	other threads:[~2004-03-13 13:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1zcH2-KO-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-03-13 13:06 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-03-13 18:14   ` [RFC] kref, a tiny, sane, reference count object Greg KH
     [not found] <1zhdz-5uL-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <1zhdz-5uL-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <1zm3F-2ex-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-03-13 20:43     ` Andi Kleen
2004-03-13  9:10 Peter Kjellerstedt
2004-03-13 18:15 ` Greg KH
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-03-13  8:20 Greg KH
2004-03-14  0:34 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-14  2:55   ` Greg KH
2004-03-14  3:30   ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-14  4:10     ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-14  4:20       ` Nick Piggin

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