From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 02/11] refcount: Implement inc/decrement-and-return functions
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2017 23:45:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170905064511.GA25102@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <30458.1504541309@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 05:08:29PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Which bit are you objecting to? Wanting to use a refcount_t with 1 to
> represent an otherwise-unreferenced object sat in a cache? Or wanting to
> display accurate usage counts when tracing gets and puts of objects?
Primarily the first, but also any feature creap of the refcount_t in
general.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-05 6:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-01 15:40 [RFC PATCH 01/11] workqueue: Add a decrement-after-return and wake if 0 facility David Howells
2017-09-01 15:41 ` [RFC PATCH 02/11] refcount: Implement inc/decrement-and-return functions David Howells
2017-09-01 16:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-09-01 21:15 ` David Howells
2017-09-01 21:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-09-01 22:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-09-01 22:51 ` David Howells
2017-09-04 7:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-09-04 15:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-04 16:08 ` David Howells
2017-09-05 6:45 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-09-01 15:41 ` [RFC PATCH 03/11] Pass mode to wait_on_atomic_t() action funcs and provide default actions David Howells
2017-09-01 15:41 ` [RFC PATCH 04/11] Add a function to start/reduce a timer David Howells
2017-10-20 12:20 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-09 0:33 ` David Howells
2017-09-01 15:41 ` [RFC PATCH 05/11] afs: Lay the groundwork for supporting network namespaces David Howells
2017-09-01 15:41 ` [RFC PATCH 06/11] afs: Add some protocol defs David Howells
2017-09-01 15:41 ` [RFC PATCH 07/11] afs: Update the cache index structure David Howells
2017-09-01 15:41 ` [RFC PATCH 08/11] afs: Keep and pass sockaddr_rxrpc addresses rather than in_addr David Howells
2017-09-01 15:41 ` [RFC PATCH 09/11] afs: Allow IPv6 address specification of VL servers David Howells
2017-09-01 15:42 ` [RFC PATCH 10/11] afs: Overhaul cell database management David Howells
2017-09-01 15:42 ` [RFC PATCH 11/11] afs: Retry rxrpc calls with address rotation on network error David Howells
2017-09-01 15:52 ` [RFC PATCH 00/11] AFS: Namespacing part 1 David Howells
2017-09-05 13:29 ` [RFC PATCH 01/11] workqueue: Add a decrement-after-return and wake if 0 facility Tejun Heo
2017-09-05 14:50 ` David Howells
2017-09-06 14:51 ` Tejun Heo
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