From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@in.ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
dipankar@in.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [patchset] Lockfree fd lookup 1 of 5
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 17:12:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040802161235.GM12308@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040802143825.A5073@infradead.org>
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 02:38:25PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 03:43:52PM +0530, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:
> > Here's the first patch. This patch 'shrinks' struct kref by removing
> > the release pointer in the struct kref. GregKH has applied this to his tree
>
> What's the advantage of this kref API over opencoded atomic_t usage?
More interesting question is how much does it win compared to simple
switch to rwlock?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-02 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-02 10:10 [patchset] Lockfree fd lookup 0 " Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2004-08-02 10:13 ` [patchset] Lockfree fd lookup 1 " Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2004-08-02 13:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-02 16:12 ` viro [this message]
2004-08-03 0:44 ` Greg KH
2004-08-02 10:16 ` [patchset] Lockfree fd lookup 2 " Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2004-08-03 0:43 ` Greg KH
2004-08-03 6:28 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2004-08-03 6:44 ` Greg KH
2004-08-03 7:41 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2004-08-02 10:18 ` [patchset] Lockfree fd lookup 0 " Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2004-08-02 10:20 ` [patchset] Lockfree fd lookup 4 " Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2004-08-02 10:23 ` [patchset] Lockfree fd lookup 5 " Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2004-08-02 16:56 ` [patchset] Lockfree fd lookup 0 " viro
2004-08-02 20:07 ` David S. Miller
2004-08-02 21:01 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-02 23:15 ` David S. Miller
2004-08-03 2:04 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-03 9:23 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2004-08-03 9:35 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2004-08-03 10:17 ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-08-03 10:06 ` viro
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