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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.


  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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