From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@in.ibm.com>
Cc: greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, dipankar@in.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [patch] Use kref for struct file.f_count refcounter
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 22:30:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040726223036.281106c5.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040726150312.GJ1231@obelix.in.ibm.com>
Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@in.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> This patch makes use of the kref api for the
> struct file.f_count refcounter. This depends
> on the new kref apis kref_read and kref_put_last
> added by means of my earlier patch today.
Sorry, but I can't really see how this improves anything. It'll slow
things down infinitesimally and it forces the reader to look elsewhere in
the tree to see what's going on.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-27 5:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-26 15:03 Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2004-07-27 5:30 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-07-27 6:55 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2004-07-27 7:13 ` Andrew Morton
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