From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce down_nowait()
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 22:09:16 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200805212209.17442.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080521011926.18bf8e81.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-21 12:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-21 6:00 [PATCH] Introduce down_nowait() Rusty Russell
2008-05-21 6:29 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-21 7:56 ` Rusty Russell
2008-05-21 17:04 ` Daniel Walker
2008-05-22 8:56 ` Rusty Russell
2008-05-22 15:48 ` Daniel Walker
2008-05-23 0:52 ` Rusty Russell
2008-05-21 8:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-21 8:19 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-21 12:09 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
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