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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] refcounting improvements in sysfs.
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:10:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1sk7npylk.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100324031829.2136.66489.stgit@notabene.brown> (NeilBrown's message of "Wed\, 24 Mar 2010 14\:20\:08 +1100")

NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> writes:

> This series tidies up the refcount of sysfs_dirents in sysfs,
> using kref where appropriate and a new karef for s_active.
> This achieves significant code simplification, especially the first
> patch.
>
> This is in part inspired by http://lwn.net/Articles/336224/ :-)

Neil I would appreciate if you would cc' Tejun and myself on
these kind of patches as we wrote the code and the best canidates
to review it.

Thanks,
Eric

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-26  3:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-24  3:20 [PATCH 0/3] refcounting improvements in sysfs NeilBrown
2010-03-24  3:20 ` [PATCH 1/3] sysfs: simplify handling for s_active refcount NeilBrown
2010-03-26  4:24   ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-26  5:32     ` Neil Brown
2010-03-26  5:42       ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-26  7:53       ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-29  4:43         ` Neil Brown
2010-03-29  7:47           ` Neil Brown
2010-03-24  3:20 ` [PATCH 2/3] sysfs: make s_count a kref NeilBrown
2010-03-26  4:29   ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-24  3:20 ` [PATCH 3/3] kref: create karef and use for sysfs_dirent->s_active NeilBrown
2010-03-26  4:50   ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-03-26  3:10 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2010-03-26  3:28   ` [PATCH 0/3] refcounting improvements in sysfs Neil Brown
2010-03-26  4:49 ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-26  5:10   ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-26  6:02   ` Neil Brown
2010-03-26  6:32     ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-29  5:10       ` Neil Brown
2010-03-31  3:20         ` Tejun Heo

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