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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
	liu ping fan <qemulist@gmail.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>,
	MORITA Kazutaka <morita.kazutaka@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/4] seqlock: introduce read-write seqlock
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 16:52:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <520A4814.9070005@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5209F7C7.7000907@siemens.com>

Il 13/08/2013 11:09, Jan Kiszka ha scritto:
>>>> >>>
>>> >>
>>> >> As the usage pattern is
>>> >>
>>> >> seqlock_read_begin()
>>> >> do
>>> >>         ...
>>> >> while (seqlock_read_check())
>>> >>
>>> >> I would suggest to call the latter seqlock_read_retry(), just like the
>>> >> kernel does.
>>> >>
>> > I think it contains the meaning of check-success-or-retry. So may
>> > check be nicer?
> "Check" alone has no obvious semantic for me, therefore "retry".

I agree.  I was writing the patch without looking at any Linux code
(just to be safe since it's GPLv2-only) and misremembered the name of
the API.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-13 14:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-13  5:43 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/4] timers thread-safe stuff Liu Ping Fan
2013-08-13  5:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/4] seqlock: introduce read-write seqlock Liu Ping Fan
2013-08-13  8:26   ` Jan Kiszka
2013-08-13  8:39     ` liu ping fan
2013-08-13  9:09       ` Jan Kiszka
2013-08-13 14:52         ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-08-13 14:53           ` Jan Kiszka
2013-08-13 15:28             ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-13  5:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/4] timer: protect timers_state's clock with seqlock Liu Ping Fan
2013-08-13  5:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/4] qemu-thread: add QemuEvent Liu Ping Fan
2013-08-13  5:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 4/4] timer: make qemu_clock_enable sync between disable and timer's cb Liu Ping Fan
2013-08-13 14:53   ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-14  0:34     ` liu ping fan
2013-08-18 14:54       ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-19  7:14         ` liu ping fan
2013-08-19  9:31           ` Paolo Bonzini

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