linux-kernel - Re: [4/7] dst: thread pool.

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Date:	Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:55:27 +0000
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dst@...emap.net
Subject: Re: [4/7] dst: thread pool.

Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> wrote:

> > 2: David Howells' "slow work" infrastructure
> 
> this one is *weird*. The infrastructure deals with object refcounting
> somehow. 

The slow-work facility keeps a reference on the object you've asked it to call
a function to be called upon until it has finished calling that function.
This simplifies the object handling code a lot, and allows you to avoid
slow-work synchronisation requests in object destructors.

David
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