On Wed, 12 February 2014 19:06:37 -0500, David Miller wrote:

It isn't being used to determine when to destroy things.

They use it to as a heuristic of when to trigger polling.

Each ubuf attached gets a kref to the higher level virtio_net buffer
holding object, they want to trigger polling when that reference drops
to 1 or lower.

Right now they are reading the atomic refcount directly, which
I think is much worse than this helper.

I disagree.  Reading the refcount directly is leaving noone under any
illusion that this might be a good idea.

Jörn

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