linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH percpu/for-3.11 2/2] percpu-refcount: implement percpu_ref_cancel

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Message-ID: <20130613180924.GA12075@mtj.dyndns.org>
Date:	Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:09:24 -0700
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@...gle.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH percpu/for-3.11 2/2] percpu-refcount: implement
 percpu_ref_cancel_init()

On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 09:00:19PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 08:58:31PM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > At first I named it percpu_ref_free() but it looked too symmetric to
> > init, more so than kill, so I was worried that people might get
> > confused that this is the normal interface to shutdown a percpu
> > refcnt, so the weird cancel_init name and further restriction on its
> > usage.
> 
> ...Yeah, confusion with _kill() is a good point. Ok, cancel_init() it
> is.

Applied both patches to percpu/for-3.11.  Added a paragraph explaining
the weird naming and usage restriction just in case.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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