Re: [patch 2/3] atomics: Provide rcuref - scalable reference counting

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Tue, Feb 28 2023 at 16:42, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 6:33 AM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This may seem like nit-picking, but I absolutely *HATE* our current
> refcount interface for how absolutely horrid the code generation ends
> up being. It's gotten better, but it's still not great.
>
> So if we're introducing yet another refcount interface, and it's done
> in the name of efficiency, I would *really* want it to actually be
> exactly that: efficient. Not some half-way thing.
>
> And yes, that may mean that it should have some architecture-specific
> code (with fallback defaults for the generic case).

Let me stare at that some more.

Thanks,

        tglx