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

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Message-Id: <E1Jm4ms-0000uH-Ol@be1.7eggert.dyndns.org>
Date:	Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:22:46 +0200
From:	Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>
To:	Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@...il.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	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

Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@...il.com> wrote:
> 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.

What about calling it counting_semaphore, if it's to be used for this purpose?

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