From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: paulmck@us.ibm.com
Cc: ego@in.ibm.com, mingo@elte.hu, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au,
arjan@infradead.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, torvalds@osdl.org,
akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
arjan@intel.linux.com, davej@redhat.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com,
vatsa@in.ibm.com, ashok.raj@intel.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/4] Rename lock_cpu_hotplug/unlock_cpu_hotplug
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:31:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060829123102.88de61fa.pj@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060829180511.GA1495@us.ibm.com>
Paul E. McKenney wrtoe:
> Can the locusts reasonably take a return value from the acquisition
> primitive and feed it to the release primitive?
Yes - the locusts typically do:
mutex_lock(&callback_mutex);
... a line or two to read or write cpusets ...
mutex_unlock(&callback_mutex);
The lock and unlock are just a few lines apart. I could easily pass
a value from the lock (acquisition) to the unlock (release).
Why do you ask?
--
I won't rest till it's the best ...
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Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> 1.925.600.0401
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-29 19:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-24 10:34 [RFC][PATCH 4/4] Rename lock_cpu_hotplug/unlock_cpu_hotplug Gautham R Shenoy
2006-08-24 11:00 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-24 14:03 ` Gautham R Shenoy
2006-08-24 14:16 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-24 14:55 ` Nick Piggin
2006-08-24 15:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-08-24 15:53 ` Nick Piggin
2006-08-25 3:53 ` Gautham R Shenoy
2006-08-27 7:59 ` Paul Jackson
2006-08-27 8:42 ` Keith Owens
2006-08-27 9:10 ` Paul Jackson
2006-08-29 18:05 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-08-29 19:31 ` Paul Jackson [this message]
2006-08-29 20:03 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-08-30 2:38 ` Paul Jackson
2006-08-30 15:14 ` Paul E. McKenney
2006-08-30 17:54 ` Paul Jackson
2006-08-30 18:13 ` Paul E. McKenney
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