From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/62] sem2mutex: -V1
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:56:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060113195658.GA3780@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200601131925.34971.ioe-lkml@rameria.de>
* Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> On Friday 13 January 2006 14:44, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > - it should stay a semaphore (if it's a genuine counting
> > semaphore)
> >
> > - or it should get converted to a completion (if it's used as
> > a completion)
> >
> > - or it should get converted to struct work (if it's used as a
> > workflow synchronizer).
>
> Could we get for each of these and a mutex:
>
> - description
> - common use case
> - small argument why this and nothing else should be used there
like ... Documentation/mutex-design.txt?
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-13 19:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-13 12:44 [patch 00/62] sem2mutex: -V1 Ingo Molnar
2006-01-13 12:59 ` Duncan Sands
2006-01-13 13:06 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-13 13:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-01-13 18:25 ` Ingo Oeser
2006-01-13 19:56 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2006-01-13 21:04 ` Matan Peled
2006-01-13 21:25 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-13 22:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-13 22:13 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-14 13:22 ` Ingo Oeser
2006-01-14 13:49 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-01-14 13:16 ` Ingo Oeser
2006-01-14 13:31 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-14 13:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-01-13 13:23 ` Ingo Molnar
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