Re: [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 24/28] rcu: Introduce bulk referencecount

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 10:31 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> Nevertheless, when most people talk to me about explicit reference
> counters, they are thinking in terms of a reference counter within a
> structure protecting that structure.

Right and when I see bulk I think of exactly those but think +=,-=
instead of ++,--.

> > I just hate the name in that it totally obscures the fact that its
> > regular SRCU.
> 
> OK, what names would you suggest? 

How about nothing at all? Simply use the existing SRCU API?
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