Hey Noah, On 11/29/18 5:31 PM, Noah Watkins wrote:
Potentially stupid question... if there exists a buffer container that can work in the new data path _without reference counting_, why not create a bufferlist super class that doesn't do reference counting?
buffer::list is a list of buffer::ptr, which is a ref-counted smart pointer that wraps a buffer segment derived from buffer::raw, which itself contains the std::atomic<unsigned> nref. buffer::ptr is a major part of buffer::list's interface, so it would be difficult for a class derived from buffer::list to do away with ptr and its reference counting.
