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

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 01:32:04PM +0530, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:
> The naming is bad, I agree. But as Dipankar pointed out earlier, there
> was no kref when I did this.

No offence meant, but lib/kref.c has been in the kernel tree since
2.6.5-rc1 which was released 4 months ago.  Did refcount.h take 4 months
to get released?  :)

> 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.,)

kref_*_rcu() as Dipankar noted is much nicer.

thanks,

greg k-h
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