On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 05:50:55PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov ([email protected]) wrote:
> > Further questions:
> > Why do you do your own refcounting instead of using kref?
>
> That's because I always used atomic operations as a reference counters
> and did not tried krefs :)
> They are the same actually (module tricky arches where smp_mb_* are
> required), so I can replace them in the next release.
Actually not - I have to set reference counter to something other than 1
or +/- 1, and thus will have to call kref_get() in a loop, which is a
very ugly step. Is there kref_set() or somethinglike that? At least not
in 2.6.22 what I'm using for now.
Sigh, I've converted most of the DST already...
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Evgeniy Polyakov
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