linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores

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Date:	Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:50:02 -0600
From:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@...eria.de>,
	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 09:56:38AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:32:28 +0200
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> > Yeah, I would open code it.  But this is indeed a sane usage of the
> > counting semaphore because there is no priority inversion.
> 
> Maybe we need a "counter" primitive instead?
> From a conceptual point of view that even makes sense
> 
> (the implementation can be pretty much the current semaphore one of course)

I'm only too happy to rename semaphore.c to atomic_counter.c and do
appropriate renames.  Or maybe 'kcounter' would be more in vogue for a
name ;-)  I'd like a name that implies sleeping, but I'm not able to
think of one right now.

Then semaphores and completions each become wrappers around counters
and everybody's happy.  Right?

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