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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Cc: gregkh@suse.de, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ostrikov@nvidia.com,
	adobriyan@gmail.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, mingo@elte.hu,
	Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] kref: Remove the memory barriers
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:54:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1323680078.16764.45.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACVXFVMDEeDBkAdv=AkRZuOH1sNdMGjR3PeHYMVLhwR+FB8gOg@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 11:48 +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> For kref, maybe it is still multiple operations done on one cpu vs them
> being visible on another, but seems a bit implicit, see the common kref
> usage below:
> 
> CPU0                            CPU1
>                                         A:kref_init(&obj->ref)

how does CPU0 get a ref to obj?

> B:kref_get(&obj->ref)
> C:access obj                    E:access obj
>                                         F:kref_put(&ojb->ref)
> D:kref_put(obj->ref) 

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-12  8:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-10 10:43 [PATCH 0/3] kref: inline and barriers Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-10 10:43 ` [PATCH 1/3] kref: Inline all functions Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-10 14:32   ` Ming Lei
2011-12-10 14:59     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-12 22:11   ` Greg KH
2011-12-13  9:36     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-13 17:15       ` Greg KH
2011-12-13 18:52         ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-13 19:11           ` Greg KH
2011-12-13 19:36             ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-10 10:43 ` [PATCH 2/3] kref: Implement kref_put in terms of kref_sub Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-10 10:43 ` [PATCH 3/3] kref: Remove the memory barriers Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-10 14:07   ` Ming Lei
2011-12-10 14:58     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-10 15:57       ` Ming Lei
2011-12-10 19:49         ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-11  2:22           ` Ming Lei
2011-12-11 12:47             ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-11 12:59               ` Ming Lei
2011-12-11 15:35                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-11 20:42                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-12  3:48                     ` Ming Lei
2011-12-12  8:54                       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2011-12-12  9:57                         ` Ming Lei
2011-12-12 10:12                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-12 10:32                             ` Ming Lei
2011-12-12 11:05                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-12 11:19                                 ` Ming Lei
2011-12-12 11:13                               ` Eric Dumazet
2011-12-12 11:15                               ` Oliver Neukum
2011-12-12 10:20                           ` Oliver Neukum
2011-12-12 19:30                             ` Greg KH
2011-12-12 22:56                               ` Oliver Neukum
2011-12-12 23:14                                 ` Greg KH
2011-12-13 11:51                                   ` Oliver Neukum
2011-12-13  9:12                                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-13  9:49                                   ` Oliver Neukum
2011-12-12  8:55                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-12 15:24                         ` Greg KH
2011-12-12  8:56                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-12 10:10                         ` Ming Lei

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