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

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Message-ID: <e2e108260804142318m19cf55c7p9973d3500de18120@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:18:05 +0200
From:	"Bart Van Assche" <bart.vanassche@...il.com>
To:	"Andi Kleen" <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	"Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@...radead.org>,
	"Roland Dreier" <rdreier@...co.com>, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Matthew Wilcox" <matthew@....cx>,
	"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 9:16 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:
>  For me it sounds like you just want to rename semaphores to some other
>  name that people don't use them for normal locking?

Would it really be a good idea to give a synchronization concept that
behaves exactly like a semaphore another name than "semaphore" ? The
semaphore concept is well known and is taught in every computer
science course.

Bart.
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