Re: [PATCH v5 1/8] SUNRPC: introduce helpers for reference countedrpcbind clients

[Stanislav Kinsbursky]

20.09.2011 19:11, Jeff Layton ÐÐÑÐÑ:
> In general, it's difficult to get locking right, especially when you
> start mixing multiple locks on related resources. Personally, I'd go
> with a simpler scheme here. There's not much value in protecting this
> counter with a spinlock when the other parts need to be protected by a
> mutex. If you do decide to do it with multiple locks, then please do
> document in comments how the locking is expected to work.
>
> An alternate scheme might be to consider doing this with krefs, but I
> haven't really considered whether that idiom makes sense here.

Jeff, please, have a look at my answer to Bryan Schumaker.
Does it allay your apprehensions?

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Stanislav Kinsbursky
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