From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: inaky@linux.intel.com
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
mingo@redhat.com, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/2] semaphores: add down_interruptible_timeout() and asm-generic/semaphore.h
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:33:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070227003313.GA7360@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070227001338.344233745@sodium.jf.intel.com>
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 04:13:38PM -0800, inaky@linux.intel.com wrote:
> Introduce down_interruptible_timeout() using timers to make the waiter
> stop waiting by simulating a signal (see first patch for more
> details). As well introduce asm-generic/semaphore.h and make other
> architectures use it too.
What do you want this for? Do you really need a full counting semaphore
or do you actually want a mutex?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-27 0:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-27 0:13 [patch 0/2] semaphores: add down_interruptible_timeout() and asm-generic/semaphore.h inaky
2007-02-27 0:13 ` [patch 1/2] semaphores: Add down_interruptible_timeout() inaky
2007-02-27 0:13 ` [patch 2/2] semaphores: all arches use include/asm-generic/semaphore.h inaky
2007-02-27 0:33 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-02-27 0:54 ` [patch 0/2] semaphores: add down_interruptible_timeout() and asm-generic/semaphore.h Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
2007-02-27 2:18 ` Alan
2007-02-27 1:57 ` Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
2007-02-27 20:45 ` Ingo Oeser
2007-03-03 1:17 ` Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
2007-02-27 20:24 ` Andrew Morton
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