From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261356AbVGSN3V (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jul 2005 09:29:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261986AbVGSN3U (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jul 2005 09:29:20 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:2465 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261356AbVGSN2R (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jul 2005 09:28:17 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:27:50 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Bill Huey , Esben Nielsen , Christoph Hellwig , Daniel Walker , Dave Chinner , greg@kroah.com, Nathan Scott , Steve Lord , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: RT and XFS Message-ID: <20050719132750.GA20595@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Ingo Molnar , Bill Huey , Esben Nielsen , Daniel Walker , Dave Chinner , greg@kroah.com, Nathan Scott , Steve Lord , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com References: <20050714160835.GA19229@infradead.org> <20050719032624.GA22060@nietzsche.lynx.com> <20050719123457.GC12368@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050719123457.GC12368@elte.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 02:34:57PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > (I do disagree with Christoph on another point: i do think we eventually > want to change the standard semaphore type in a similar fashion upstream > as well - but that probably has to come with a s/struct semaphore/struct > mutex/ change as well.) Actually having a mutex_t in mainline would be a good idea even without preempt rt, to document better what kind of locking we expect.