netdev - Re: [PATCH net v5 1/5] bnx2x: protect different statistics flows

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Date:	Tue, 13 Aug 2013 10:57:19 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	dmitry@...adcom.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, eilong@...adcom.com,
	ariele@...adcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v5 1/5] bnx2x: protect different statistics flows

On Mon, 12 Aug 2013 21:24:02 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:

> From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
> Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 17:12:08 -0700
> 
> > On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 02:24:59 +0300
> > "Dmitry Kravkov" <dmitry@...adcom.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> +	bool					stats_started;
> >> +	struct semaphore			stats_sema;
> > 
> > Is there a reason to use a counting semaphore? Do you expect it to
> > be held across user process boundary? or want count > 1?
> > 
> > Use of semaphores as a locking primitive is discouraged,
> > instead us a mutex.
> 
> Would you please look at the feedback I gave these guys to the
> previous iteration of these changes?
> 
> They were using custom locking primitives and semaphores gave
> the best approximation to the semantics they were looking for.

Your right in this case sempahore makes sense because it is
used to hold off process while hardware responds.
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