[vlc-devel] [PATCH v2 01/10] core: add atomic refcounter helper

[Romain Vimont]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 06:32:33PM +0300, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Scratch picture_t, but still read-only objects (e.g. QString backend storage) or read-only accesses don't need release barrier.
> 
> Also acquire barrier is not needed when reference count is more than 1-to-0.

I'm glad you watched the video linked in the commit message more than 3
minutes (1), so that you were able to apply what the author explained in
some random file in VLC yesterday (2).

However, I think it would benefit the project more if this was done in
a helper used many times.

If you prefer to use the second version (with the explicit fence), we
can just change the implementation of vlc_atomic_rc_dec().

(1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M15UKpNlpeM&feature=youtu.be&t=49m10s
(2) https://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commitdiff;h=ae2fed77b4833d522087176048d2586c60f9bd9b