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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
To: Esben Nielsen <nielsen.esben@gogglemail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Esben Nielsen <nielsen.esben@googlemail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cleanup and remove some extra spinlocks from rtmutex
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 18:26:05 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060815142605.GA232@oleg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0608151152110.10351@frodo.shire>

On 08/15, Esben Nielsen wrote:
>
> On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> >task->pi_blocked_on != NULL, we hold task->pi_blocked_on->lock->wait_lock.
> >Can it go away ?
> 
> That is correct. But does it make the code more readable?

Well, in my opinion - yes. But yes, it's only my personal feeling :)

>                                                            When you read 
> the code you shouldn't need to go into that kind of complicated arguments 
> to see the correctness - unless the code can't be written otherwise.

Sure, this needs a comment.

Thanks again,

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-15 10:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-01 13:39 [PATCH] cleanup and remove some extra spinlocks from rtmutex Steven Rostedt
2006-08-13 15:55 ` [PATCH] rtmutex-clean-up-and-remove-some-extra-spinlocks-more Oleg Nesterov
2006-08-13 19:03 ` [PATCH] cleanup and remove some extra spinlocks from rtmutex Oleg Nesterov
2006-08-14 20:29   ` Esben Nielsen
2006-08-15 11:03     ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-08-15  9:54       ` Esben Nielsen
2006-08-15 14:26         ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2006-08-15 10:05           ` Esben Nielsen
2006-08-15 14:46             ` Oleg Nesterov

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