On Mon, 23 Oct 2017, Reshetova, Elena wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Oct 2017, Elena Reshetova wrote: > > How did you make sure that these atomic operations have no other > > serialization effect and can be replaced with refcount? > > What serialization effects? Are you taking about smth else than memory > ordering? Well, the memory ordering constraints can be part of serialization mechanisms. Unfortunately they are not well documented .... > For memory ordering my current hope is that we can just make refcount_t > to use same strict atomic primitives and then it would not make any > difference. I think this would be the simplest way for everyone since I > think even some maintainers are having issues understanding all the > implications of "relaxed" ordering. Well, that would make indeed the conversion simpler because then it is just a drop in replacement. Albeit there might be some places which benefit of the relaxed ordering as on some architectures strict ordering is expensive. Thanks, tglx
