linux-kernel - RE: down_spin() implementation

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Date:	Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:16:55 -0700
From:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:	"Matthew Wilcox" <matthew@....cx>,
	"Nick Piggin" <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
Cc:	"Stephen Rothwell" <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	<linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: down_spin() implementation

> So it makes little sense to add this to semaphores.  Better to introduce
> a spinaphore, as you say.

> struct {
>   atomic_t cur;
>   int max;
> } ss_t;

Could this API sneak into the bottom of one or the other of
linux/include/{spinlock,semaphore}.h ... or should it get its own
spinaphore.h file?

Or should I follow Alan's earlier advice and keep this as an ia64
only thing (since I'll be the only user).

-Tony
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