On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 05:14:13PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> BTW. if we talk about performance - what about replacing:
>
> if (atomic_dec_and_test(&variable)) {
> ... release(object);
> }
>
> with this:
>
> if (atomic_read(&variable) == 1 || atomic_dec_and_test(&variable)) {
> barrier();
> ... release(object);
> }
That would completely wreck kref_get_unless_zero().
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