On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 05:50:55PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov (johnpol@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > Further questions: > > Why do you do your own refcounting instead of using kref? > > That's because I always used atomic operations as a reference counters > and did not tried krefs :) > They are the same actually (module tricky arches where smp_mb_* are > required), so I can replace them in the next release. Actually not - I have to set reference counter to something other than 1 or +/- 1, and thus will have to call kref_get() in a loop, which is a very ugly step. Is there kref_set() or somethinglike that? At least not in 2.6.22 what I'm using for now. Sigh, I've converted most of the DST already... -- Evgeniy Polyakov - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
