linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/7] ipc,sem: have only one list in struct sem

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Date:	Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:14:34 -0700
From:	Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@...com>
To:	Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, hhuang@...hat.com, jason.low2@...com,
	walken@...gle.com, lwoodman@...hat.com, chegu_vinod@...com,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] ipc,sem: have only one list in struct sem_queue

On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 15:55 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> Having only one list in struct sem_queue, and only queueing simple
> semaphore operations on the list for the semaphore involved, allows
> us to introduce finer grained locking for semtimedop.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>

Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@...com>


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