Bug 1228157

Summary:	Provide and use a common way to do reference counting of (internal) structures
Product:	[Community] GlusterFS	Reporter:	Niels de Vos <ndevos>
Component:	core	Assignee:	Niels de Vos <ndevos>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	mainline	CC:	bugs, rkavunga, smohan
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Fixed In Version:	glusterfs-3.8rc2	Doc Type:	Enhancement
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Clones:	1235628 1235939 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2016-06-16 13:08:45 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Blocks:	1226717, 1235628, 1235939

Description Niels de Vos 2015-06-04 10:18:17 UTC

Description of problem:
Many structures need reference counting, and each structure implements its own way of doing it. This is confusing and makes things more difficult to understand than it necessary.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mainline

I am not a grape farmer:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.gluster.devel/11202

Comment 1 Anand Avati 2015-06-04 10:48:57 UTC

REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/11022 (core: add "struct gf_ref" for common refcounting strutures) posted (#3) for review on master by Niels de Vos (ndevos)

Comment 2 Anand Avati 2015-06-04 10:49:46 UTC

REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/11022 (core: add "gf_ref_t" for common refcounting structures) posted (#4) for review on master by Niels de Vos (ndevos)

Comment 3 Anand Avati 2015-06-04 11:19:00 UTC

REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/11022 (core: add "gf_ref_t" for common refcounting structures) posted (#5) for review on master by Niels de Vos (ndevos)

Comment 4 Anand Avati 2015-06-04 13:45:13 UTC

REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/11022 (core: add "gf_ref_t" for common refcounting structures) posted (#6) for review on master by Niels de Vos (ndevos)

Comment 5 Anand Avati 2015-06-04 23:15:08 UTC

REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/11022 (core: add "gf_ref_t" for common refcounting structures) posted (#7) for review on master by Niels de Vos (ndevos)

Comment 6 Anand Avati 2015-06-16 19:58:00 UTC

REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/11022 (core: add "gf_ref_t" for common refcounting structures) posted (#8) for review on master by Niels de Vos (ndevos)

Comment 7 Anand Avati 2015-06-16 20:03:23 UTC

REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/11022 (core: add "gf_ref_t" for common refcounting structures) posted (#9) for review on master by Niels de Vos (ndevos)

Comment 8 Anand Avati 2015-06-17 09:29:26 UTC

REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/11022 (core: add "gf_ref_t" for common refcounting structures) posted (#10) for review on master by Niels de Vos (ndevos)

Comment 9 Niels de Vos 2016-06-16 13:08:45 UTC

This bug is getting closed because a release has been made available that should address the reported issue. In case the problem is still not fixed with glusterfs-3.8.0, please open a new bug report.

glusterfs-3.8.0 has been announced on the Gluster mailinglists [1], packages for several distributions should become available in the near future. Keep an eye on the Gluster Users mailinglist [2] and the update infrastructure for your distribution.

[1] http://blog.gluster.org/2016/06/glusterfs-3-8-released/
[2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.gluster.user