Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/7] UBC: core (structures, API)

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 03:45:56PM +0400, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
> >>+struct user_beancounter
> >>+{
> >>+	atomic_t		ub_refcount;
> >
> >
> >Why not use a struct kref here instead of rolling your own reference
> >counting logic?
> 
> We need more complex decrement/locking scheme than krefs
> provide. e.g. in __put_beancounter() we need
> atomic_dec_and_lock_irqsave() semantics for performance optimizations.

Ah, ok, missed that.  Nevermind then :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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