Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 4/4] [Net] Support accelerated network plugin modules

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 15/6/07 17:22, "Kieran Mansley" <kmansley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The lock protects the use_count variable.

Yes, that's one thing I noticed -- can you use atomic_t for reference counts
and hence reduce the number of times you need to lock/unlock? At least the
open-coded lock-decrement-test-maybe-free-unlock sequences could be
abstracted into a put_foo() function.

 -- Keir



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