Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores

[Oliver Neukum]

Am Mittwoch, 16. April 2008 18:16:52 schrieb Matthew Wilcox:
> The basic idea is that you get back a cookie from the kcounter_claim()
> which you have to hand to the kcounter_release() function so it
> knows which one you released.  It's similar to mutex debugging except

So in addition to the kcounter we need to save a token in a data structure?
In fact, there must be a data structure that can house that token. So you
can no longer live with a pointer just to a device descriptor, but every
individual use of a resource must have an associated data structure?

	Regards
		Oliver

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