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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 09:03:20 -0700
From: Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] Introduce seqnum_ops
On 11/10/20 9:33 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 12:53:26PM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote:
>> There are a number of atomic_t usages in the kernel where atomic_t api
>> is used strictly for counting sequence numbers and other statistical
>> counters and not for managing object lifetime.
>
> We already have something in Linux called a sequence counter, and it's
> different from this. ID counter? instance number? monotonic_t? stat_t?
>
No results for monotonic_t or stat_t. Can you give me a pointer to what
your referring to.
thanks,
-- Shuah
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