Re: [PATCH 007 of 11] knfsd: add svc_get

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On Sunday July 30, [email protected] wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:42:19 +1000
> NeilBrown <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >  /*
> > + * We use sv_nrthreads as a reference count.  svc_destroy() drops
> > + * this refcount, so we need to bump it up around operations that
> > + * change the number of threads.  Horrible, but there it is.
> > + * Should be called with the BKL held.
> > + */
> > +static inline void svc_get(struct svc_serv *serv)
> > +{
> > +	serv->sv_nrthreads++;
> > +}
> 
> It's a bit odd for a numa-scalability patch to be increasing our dependency
> upon lock_kernel()...

It just looks odd.
This patch doesn't change generated code - it just puts a
post-increment into an inline function so that it can be documented
and well understood.

We don't change the number of threads very often (mainly at bootup and
shutdown) so having that under the BKL isn't a big cost.

NeilBrown
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