Jens Axboe wrote on Monday, October 17, 2005 10:59 AM
> you cannot ref count a statically embedded structure. It has to be
> dynamically allocated.
I'm confused. For every block device queue, there is one unique
elevator_t structure allocated via kmalloc. And vice versa, one
elevator_t has only one request_queue points to it. This elevator_t
structure is per q since it has pointer to per-queue elevator
private data.
Since it is always one to one relationship, ref count is predictable
and static. I see there are ref count on q->elevator, But it is
always 2: one from object instantiation and one from adding an sysfs
hierarchy directory. In this case, I don't see the difference.
Am I missing something?
- Ken
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