Re: [PATCH 00/13] Introduce seqnum_ops

[Shuah Khan]

On 11/10/20 9:33 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 12:53:26PM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote:
> > There are a number of atomic_t usages in the kernel where atomic_t api
> > is used strictly for counting sequence numbers and other statistical
> > counters and not for managing object lifetime.
>
> We already have something in Linux called a sequence counter, and it's
> different from this.  ID counter?  instance number?  monotonic_t?  stat_t?

No results for monotonic_t or stat_t. Can you give me a pointer to what
your referring to.

thanks,
-- Shuah