From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@infradead.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Alexander Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>,
Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/15] Generic Mutex Subsystem
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:21:10 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43A7BEF6.3010202@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1135066007.2952.4.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>>If we agree mutex is a good idea at all (and I think it is), then
>>wouldn't it be better to aim for a wholesale conversion rather than
>>"if people want to"?
>
>
> well most of this will "only" take a few kernel releases ;-)
>
OK, so in my mind that is aiming for a wholesale conversion. And
yes I would expect the semaphore to stay around for a while...
But I thought Linus phrased it as though mutex should be made
available and no large scale conversions.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-20 8:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-19 1:34 [patch 00/15] Generic Mutex Subsystem Ingo Molnar
2005-12-19 4:22 ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-19 4:28 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-19 4:31 ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-19 6:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-19 12:56 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-19 16:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-19 15:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-19 19:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-19 19:25 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2005-12-19 19:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-21 16:42 ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-01-10 10:28 ` Balbir Singh
2006-01-10 18:03 ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-01-11 6:33 ` Balbir Singh
2006-01-11 9:22 ` Oleg Nesterov
2005-12-19 20:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-19 20:19 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2005-12-19 20:32 ` Russell King
2005-12-19 20:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-19 19:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-19 20:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-19 23:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-12-20 8:03 ` Nick Piggin
2005-12-20 8:06 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-20 8:21 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2005-12-20 8:36 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-20 8:48 ` Nick Piggin
2005-12-19 16:22 ` Ingo Molnar
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