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

[Ravikiran G Thirumalai]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 10:08:00AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > ...
> > Close, but not the same.  I just had a quick look at krefs.
> > Actually, this refrerence count infrastructure I am proposing is not for 
> > traditional refcounting.
> 
> But you are advertising it as such by calling it a refcount_t and
> putting it in a file called refcount.h.

The naming is bad, I agree. But as Dipankar pointed out earlier, there
was no kref when I did this.  We (Dipankar and myslef) had a discussion
and decided:
1. I will make a patch to shrink kref and feed it to Greg
2. Add new set kref api for lockfree refcounting --
	kref_lf_xxx.  (kref_lf_get, kref_lf_get_rcu etc.,)
3. Change the fd lookup patch to use kref_lf_xxx api

Does that sound ok?

Thanks,
Kiran
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