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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores
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On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 06:31:08PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 16. April 2008 18:16:52 schrieb Matthew Wilcox:
> > The basic idea is that you get back a cookie from the kcounter_claim()
> > which you have to hand to the kcounter_release() function so it
> > knows which one you released. ?It's similar to mutex debugging except
> 
> So in addition to the kcounter we need to save a token in a data structure?
> In fact, there must be a data structure that can house that token. So you
> can no longer live with a pointer just to a device descriptor, but every
> individual use of a resource must have an associated data structure?

That's right.  Do you have an example where this would be inconvenient?
I couldn't find one.  For example, with USB, you could place one in the
struct urb.

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