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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Binoy Jayan <binoy.jayan@linaro.org>
Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>,
	Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com>,
	Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@gmail.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] IB/hns: Replace counting semaphore event_sem with wait condition
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 09:39:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161017163927.GA7207@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1476721862-7070-7-git-send-email-binoy.jayan@linaro.org>

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 10:01:00PM +0530, Binoy Jayan wrote:
> Counting semaphores are going away in the future, so replace the semaphore
> hns_roce_cmdq::event_sem with an open-coded implementation.

Sorry, but no.  Using a proper semaphore abstraction is always
better than open coding it.  While most semaphore users should move
to better primitives, those that actually are counting semaphore
should stick to the existing primitive.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-17 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-17 16:30 [PATCH 0/8] infiniband: Remove semaphores Binoy Jayan
2016-10-17 16:30 ` [PATCH 1/8] IB/core: iwpm_nlmsg_request: Replace semaphore with completion Binoy Jayan
2016-10-17 16:30 ` [PATCH 2/8] IB/core: Replace semaphore sm_sem " Binoy Jayan
2016-10-17 16:30 ` [PATCH 3/8] IB/hns: Replace semaphore poll_sem with mutex Binoy Jayan
2016-10-17 16:30 ` [PATCH 4/8] IB/mthca: " Binoy Jayan
2016-10-17 16:30 ` [PATCH 5/8] IB/isert: Replace semaphore sem with completion Binoy Jayan
2016-10-17 16:31 ` [PATCH 6/8] IB/hns: Replace counting semaphore event_sem with wait condition Binoy Jayan
2016-10-17 16:39   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2016-10-17 20:29   ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-10-18  5:16     ` Binoy Jayan
2016-10-19 15:15       ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-10-17 16:31 ` [PATCH 7/8] IB/mthca: " Binoy Jayan
2016-10-17 16:39   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-10-17 20:32     ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-10-17 16:31 ` [PATCH 8/8] IB/mlx5: Replace counting semaphore sem " Binoy Jayan
2016-10-17 16:40   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-10-17 16:57 ` [PATCH 0/8] infiniband: Remove semaphores Bart Van Assche
2016-10-17 20:06   ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-10-17 20:28     ` Bart Van Assche
2016-10-17 20:37       ` Arnd Bergmann

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