Messages in this thread | | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores | Date | Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:31:08 +0200 |
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Am Mittwoch, 16. April 2008 18:16:52 schrieb Matthew Wilcox: > The basic idea is that you get back a cookie from the kcounter_claim() > which you have to hand to the kcounter_release() function so it > knows which one you released. It's similar to mutex debugging except
So in addition to the kcounter we need to save a token in a data structure? In fact, there must be a data structure that can house that token. So you can no longer live with a pointer just to a device descriptor, but every individual use of a resource must have an associated data structure?
Regards Oliver
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