Hi Josef, On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 11:27:07AM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote: > So the general approach is correct, but it's sort of confusing because you are > using nr_cgwbs as a reference counter, because it's set at 1 at blkg creation > time regardless of wether or not there's an assocated wb cg. So instead why not > just have a refcount_t ref, set it to 1 on creation and make the wb cg take a > ref when it's attached, and then just do the get/put like normal and cleanup as > you have below? What you are doing is a reference counter masquerading as a > count of the wb cg's, just add full ref counting to the blkcg and call it a day, > it'll be much less confusing. Thanks, Yeah, that makes more sense. I've switched to using refcount_t and renamed it to wbcg_refcnt. The corresponding actions have been renamed. I've also fixed the kbuild error in v2. Thanks, Dennis