Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 09:45:02 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@unixdaemons.com> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Subject: Re: SMP safe reference counting Message-ID: <XFMail.20020328094502.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20020328000240.A94897@unixdaemons.com>
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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. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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