Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 16:46:18 -0500 From: Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@unixdaemons.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Subject: Re: SMP safe reference counting Message-ID: <20020328164618.A95605@unixdaemons.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20020328094502.jhb@FreeBSD.org>; from jhb@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 09:45:02AM -0500 References: <20020328000240.A94897@unixdaemons.com> <XFMail.20020328094502.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 09:45:02AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 28-Mar-2002 Bosko Milekic wrote: > > > > I don't think we really need a ref. count API, per-se. I can think of > > several places that may need to do ref. counting but wouldn't want to > > do it with a bus-locked instruction because their reference counter(s) > > are already protected by an existing mutex. > > > > -Bosko > > Those places wouldn't use the API then I think. However, this would be good > for things like ucreds, pargs, uidinfos and others. Yeah, absolutely. I was just pointing out that there's little point in having a reference counting API when a lot of the reference counting implementations won't be using it. > -- > > John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ -- Bosko Milekic bmilekic@unixdaemons.com bmilekic@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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