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On 7/17/07, Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Ok.. so my problem still remains, how do I get a non-blocking atomic
> reference increment/decrement routine, that would prevent my
> container from being deleted?

css_put() in my new patchset will be non-blocking.

>
> I don't find cpusets using css_put().

Cpusets never needs to keep a non-process reference on a cpuset
object, so the framework handles everything.

Paul