Re: Linus rollup

Randy.Dunlap
2003-01-30T17:15:55Z

On 30 Jan 2003, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

| > > not tied to performance at this specific point in time, on today's ia32
| > > flavor-of-the-month.
| > >
| > > If we discover even-yet-faster read-write spinlocks tomorrow, this name
| > > is going to become a joke :)
| >
| > it would become historical, like so many other things. Actually when
| > they say frlock I don't even think at fast read lock, I think at frlock
| > as a specific new name, so personally I'm fine either ways. I don't
| > dislike it, it's not worse than the big reader lock name that should be
| > replaced by RCU at large btw.
|
| Don't read too much into the name. It was just a 30 second effort.
| Just didn't want a name like:
| ThingToDoReadConsitentDataUsingSequenceNumbers
|
| So if there is a standard or better name in a reasonable length,
| then let's change it. Marketing always changes the name of everything
| prior to release anyway ;-)

You can follow Andrea's suggestion and call it a kaos_lock
(for Keith Owens).

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~Randy