Re: Linus rollup

Stephen Hemminger
2003-01-30T17:09:28Z

> > 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 ;-)