Re: [PATCH 05/24] ceph: ref counted buffer

[Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>]

On Sat, 5 Dec 2009, Ingo Oeser wrote:

> On Friday 04 December 2009, Sage Weil wrote:
> > struct ceph_buffer is a simple ref-counted buffer.  We transparently
> > choose between kmalloc for small buffers and vmalloc for large ones.
> > 
> > This is currently used only for allocating memory for xattr data.
> 
> Could you wrap parts of this refcounting logic around kref?
> see #include <linux/kref.h> and lib/kref.c
> 
> It avoids a bug with memory areas for free and if anybody
> optimizes or changes refcounting stuff, you get all changes for free :-)

The only real difference it looks like are

	smp_mb();

in get() and

	smp_mb__after_atomic_inc();

in put.  Is that needed for all other atomic_t refcounting too?

Switched to kref, and cleaned up the (partially unused) interface.

 fs/ceph/buffer.c    |   37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 fs/ceph/buffer.h    |   30 ++++++------------------------
 fs/ceph/inode.c     |   11 +++++++----
 fs/ceph/messenger.c |    2 +-
 fs/ceph/xattr.c     |    8 +++++---
 5 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)

sage