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
next parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-13 13:07 UTC|newest]
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2004-03-13 13:06 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-03-13 18:14 ` [RFC] kref, a tiny, sane, reference count object Greg KH
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[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
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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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