Re: [PATCH] Introduce down_nowait()

Rusty Russell
2008-05-21T12:09:40Z

On Wednesday 21 May 2008 18:19:26 Andrew Morton wrote:
> The number of down_trylocks in rc3 is 51 and the number of
> down_trylocks and down_nowaits in -mm is 47. So progress is pretty
> glacial.
...
> Anyway, yes, I agree that the whole effort is a bit dubious and that
> the time could be better directed to semaphore eliminations.

It is deeply annoying, even embarrassing, and trivial to fix. And as you say,
process is glacial...

Cheers,
Rusty.