Re: [PATCH 007 of 11] knfsd: add svc_get

[Andrew Morton]

On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:42:19 +1000
NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>  /*
> + * We use sv_nrthreads as a reference count.  svc_destroy() drops
> + * this refcount, so we need to bump it up around operations that
> + * change the number of threads.  Horrible, but there it is.
> + * Should be called with the BKL held.
> + */
> +static inline void svc_get(struct svc_serv *serv)
> +{
> +	serv->sv_nrthreads++;
> +}

It's a bit odd for a numa-scalability patch to be increasing our dependency
upon lock_kernel()...

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