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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:24:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1208003081.7427.7.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080411210022.GJ11962@parisc-linux.org>

On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 15:00 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> So does it make sense to retain the completion as a primitive
> in Linux? 

My take on it is the opposite: kill off semaphores and leave the
completions around.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-04-12 12:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-11 21:00 [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-12  6:43 ` Daniel Walker
2008-04-12 10:31   ` Ingo Oeser
2008-04-12 12:24 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2008-04-12 17:26   ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-12 18:01     ` Daniel Walker
2008-04-12 18:05     ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-12 19:04       ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-12 19:16         ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-12 19:53     ` Roland Dreier
2008-04-12 20:47       ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-13  7:08         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-13 12:57           ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-14 15:39             ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-14 15:58               ` Roland Dreier
2008-04-14 16:32                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-14 16:56                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-04-14 17:50                     ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-14 17:46                   ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-14 17:54                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-14 18:09                       ` Daniel Walker
2008-04-14 19:16                       ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-15  6:18                         ` Bart Van Assche
2008-04-15  6:46                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-15  7:17                             ` Bart Van Assche
2008-04-15  8:44                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-15 13:15                                 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-04-15 16:09                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-15 16:27                                   ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-15 16:57                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-15 17:05                                       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-15 18:50                                         ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-16 12:37                                           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-16 12:50                                             ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-16 12:59                                               ` Killable stat/readdir Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-15 17:15                                       ` [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores Andi Kleen
2008-04-15 17:26                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-15 17:41                                           ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-15 18:14                                             ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-16 16:07                                               ` Ingo Oeser
2008-04-16 16:16                                                 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-16 16:31                                                   ` Oliver Neukum
2008-04-16 16:34                                                     ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-16 16:42                                                       ` Oliver Neukum
2008-04-16 16:44                                                         ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-16 16:47                                                           ` Roland Dreier
2008-04-16 16:50                                                     ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-04-16 16:58                                                       ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-16 17:08                                                         ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-04-16 17:12                                                           ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-16 18:10                                                           ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-14 19:16                       ` Alan Cox
2008-04-13 14:55           ` Bart Van Assche
2008-04-14 17:12             ` API documentation (was [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores) Jonathan Corbet
2008-04-14 17:33               ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-14 18:38                 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-04-13 13:55       ` [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores Bart Van Assche
2008-04-13 14:22         ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-13  7:05   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-13 12:52     ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-14 15:41       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-14 17:46         ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-14 16:54       ` Jens Axboe
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2008-04-16 10:22                     ` Bodo Eggert

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