> On Friday 03 August 2007, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > From: Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Make lifetime of 'struct fuse_file' independent from 'struct file' by > > adding a reference counter and destructor. > > What about using krefs to implement that?
Thanks for the suggestion. I'm aware of kref, but I don't see the huge advantage over using the raw atomic interface. > This will also fix the missing smp_barriers, Why are the barriers needed? The documentation doesn't say anything about that. > is very simple, saves code, makes your life easier and is a well > known known kernel infrastructure :-) I think it saves one line, and adds another, for a total of zero lines saved ;) Thanks, Miklos - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
