Re: [patch 3/3] use kref for bio

From: Al Viro
Date: Tue Apr 25 2006 - 22:34:50 EST


On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 10:11:02AM +0800, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> Use kref for reference counter of bio.
> This patch also removes BUG_ON() for freeing unreferenced bio.
> But kref can detect it if CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB is enabled.

*Ugh*

Let's _not_. It's extra overhead for no good reason.

Just in case: any kref conversion for
* super_block
* inode
* dentry
* file
is NAKed while we are at it.
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