From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753965Ab1K1ShY (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:37:24 -0500 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:45019 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753369Ab1K1ShV convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:37:21 -0500 Message-ID: <1322505408.2921.157.camel@twins> Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 24/28] rcu: Introduce bulk reference count From: Peter Zijlstra To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca, josh@joshtriplett.org, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, rostedt@goodmis.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, dhowells@redhat.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, darren@dvhart.com, patches@linaro.org Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:36:48 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20111128183124.GH2346@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20111102203017.GA3830@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1320265849-5744-24-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1322484071.2921.115.camel@twins> <20111128171513.GF2346@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1322504279.2921.154.camel@twins> <20111128183124.GH2346@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.1- Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 10:31 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > Nevertheless, when most people talk to me about explicit reference > counters, they are thinking in terms of a reference counter within a > structure protecting that structure. Right and when I see bulk I think of exactly those but think +=,-= instead of ++,--. > > I just hate the name in that it totally obscures the fact that its > > regular SRCU. > > OK, what names would you suggest? How about nothing at all? Simply use the existing SRCU API?