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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@infradead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>, Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 09/15] Generic Mutex Subsystem, mutex-migration-helper-x86_64.patch
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 05:30:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051219043032.GH23384@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051219013827.GE28038@elte.hu>

On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 02:38:27AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> introduce the arch_semaphore type on x86_64, to ease migration to 
> mutexes.

As a small feedback I don't think the name arch_semaphore
is very good because it means nothing.  How about counting_semaphore 
which is what it actually is? 

-Andi


  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-19  4:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-19  1:38 [patch 09/15] Generic Mutex Subsystem, mutex-migration-helper-x86_64.patch Ingo Molnar
2005-12-19  4:30 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-12-19 16:34   ` Ingo Molnar

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