Re: [RFC] Refcounting of objects part of a lockfree collection

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Jul 14 2004 - 02:09:53 EST


On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 10:23:50AM +0530, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:
>
> The attatched patch provides infrastructure for refcounting of objects
> in a rcu protected collection.

This is really close to the kref implementation. Why not just use that
instead?

Oh, and I think you need to use atomic_set() instead of initializing the
atomic_t by hand.

thanks,

greg k-h
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/