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Date:      Fri, 26 Jun 2015 04:29:07 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
To:        Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Cc:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: atomic v_usecount and v_holdcnt
Message-ID:  <20150626042546.Q2820@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20150625123156.GA29667@dft-labs.eu>
References:  <20141122002812.GA32289@dft-labs.eu> <20141122092527.GT17068@kib.kiev.ua> <20141122211147.GA23623@dft-labs.eu> <20141124095251.GH17068@kib.kiev.ua> <20150314225226.GA15302@dft-labs.eu> <20150316094643.GZ2379@kib.kiev.ua> <20150317014412.GA10819@dft-labs.eu> <20150318104442.GS2379@kib.kiev.ua> <20150625123156.GA29667@dft-labs.eu>

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On Thu, 25 Jun 2015, Mateusz Guzik wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:44:42PM +0200, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 02:44:12AM +0100, Mateusz Guzik wrote:

>>> I replaced them with refcount_acquire_if_not_zero and
>>> refcount_release_if_not_last.
>> I dislike the length of the names.  Can you propose something shorter ?
>
> Unfortunately the original API is alreday quite verbose and I don't have
> anything readable which would retain "refcount_acquire" (instead of a
> "ref_get" or "ref_acq"). Adding "_nz" as a suffix does not look good
> ("refcount_acquire_if_nz").

refcount -> rc
acquire -> acq

The "acq" abbreviation is already used a lot for atomic ops.

Bruce



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