[Devel] Re: [ckrm-tech] [RFC][PATCH 2/7] UBC: core (structures, API)

Dave Hansen haveblue at us.ibm.com
Thu Aug 17 07:32:40 PDT 2006


On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 15:45 +0400, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
> We need more complex decrement/locking scheme than krefs
> provide. e.g. in __put_beancounter() we need
> atomic_dec_and_lock_irqsave() semantics for performance optimizations.

Is it possible to put the locking in the destructor?  It seems like that
should give similar behavior.

-- Dave




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