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Message-Id: <1209155049.12461.40.camel@localhost.localdomain> Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:24:09 -0700 From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com> To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> Subject: Re: Announce: Semaphore-Removal tree On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 11:00 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > It's been a Good Idea for a while to use mutexes instead of > semaphores where possible. Additional debuggability, better optimised, > better-enforced semantics, etc. > > Obviously, there are some places that can't be converted to mutexes. > I'm not proposing blind changes. I've been through a dozen places > and found some that can be converted to spinlocks, others to > completions, but mostly to mutexes. So as not to lose these patches, > I've made them available as a git tree. I think the right way to get > these patches in will be to go through the maintainers of each file. > > I'll post a list of the places using semaphores later. My current list > is a bit out of date and contains insulting comments that I would like > to rephrase before the authors of the code in question see them ;-) I've got a bunch of these if you want to incorporate them.. I've been slowly trickling them up stream .. Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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