On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 08:43:30AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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. Sure; and like I said that is a perfectly fine option. I just wanted to see how horrible this ended up.