Re: [patchset] Lockfree fd lookup 1 of 5

Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-02T13:38:40Z

On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 03:43:52PM +0530, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:
> Here's the first patch. This patch 'shrinks' struct kref by removing
> the release pointer in the struct kref. GregKH has applied this to his tree

What's the advantage of this kref API over opencoded atomic_t usage?