Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/10] On inode::i_count and the usage vs reference count issue

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To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/10] On inode::i_count and the usage vs reference count issue
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 08:43:30 -0800
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Chris Mason <clm@xxxxxx>, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>, elena.reshetova@xxxxxxxxx, ishkamiel@xxxxxxxxx, dwindsor@xxxxxxxxx, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20170224154329.478276481@infradead.org>
User-agent: Mutt/1.7.1 (2016-10-04)

Usage counts are common and useful, so for now they should stay as-is
and if people can came up with a useful primitive for them we can
consider implementing it.

Trying to shoe-horn everything into refcount_t is a horrible idea.

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