netdev - Re: [PATCH v5 1/8] SUNRPC: introduce helpers for reference counted rpcbind clients

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Message-ID: <4E78BD31.8090509@parallels.com>
Date:	Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:20:01 +0400
From:	Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@...allels.com>
To:	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
CC:	"Trond.Myklebust@...app.com" <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>,
	"linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org" <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>,
	Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	"neilb@...e.de" <neilb@...e.de>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"bfields@...ldses.org" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/8] SUNRPC: introduce helpers for reference counted
 rpcbind clients

20.09.2011 19:11, Jeff Layton пишет:
>
> 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?

-- 
Best regards,
Stanislav Kinsbursky
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