On 4/28/2015 7:03 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 11:32:08AM +0300, Matan Barak wrote:
This was already asked by Haggai Eran awhile ago and was answered.
Anyway, in ib_unregister_device we delete all client's related data.
We would like to ensure that all references were released before this
data is being deleted. Meaning, we would like to ensure the device
is still functioning but isn't referenced rather than just to avoid
freeing the IB device's memory.
A kref is the wrong datastructure for that purpose.
What is the right data structure in your opinion?
Jason
Matan
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