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From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: Mitchell Blank Jr <mitch@sfgoth.com>, Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] might_sleep() improvements
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 23:10:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200309082310.22375.rob@landley.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030902183914.GA67783@gaz.sfgoth.com>

On Tuesday 02 September 2003 14:39, Mitchell Blank Jr wrote:
> Robert Love wrote:
> > >  o Add a "might_sleep_if()" macro for when we might sleep only if some
> > >    condition is met.
> >
> > But I am neutral about this.
>
> That's understandable - I have some of the same reservations myself.  In
> the end I think it's a slight win though.
>
> > Maybe
> > renaming this "might_sleep_on()" at least brings it more in line with
> > BUG_ON(), and avoids looking like the gross constructs I fear.
>
> I named it that at first but I was afraid that someone might get confused
> and thing the semantics were "might_sleep_on(&waitqueue)" since 'sleeping
> on' means something already.  To me might_sleep_if(cond) looked a lot
> clearer at first glance.

might_sleep_when?

Rob



      reply	other threads:[~2003-09-09 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-02  7:51 [PATCH] might_sleep() improvements Mitchell Blank Jr
2003-09-02  8:14 ` Nick Piggin
2003-09-02  8:32   ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2003-09-02  8:39     ` Nick Piggin
2003-09-02  8:36   ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-02  8:44     ` Nick Piggin
2003-09-02 13:55 ` Robert Love
2003-09-02 18:39   ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2003-09-09  3:10     ` Rob Landley [this message]

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