linux-kernel - Re: Announce: Semaphore-Removal tree

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Message-Id: <1209155917.12461.46.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:38:37 -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:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/willy/misc.git;a=shortlog;h=semaphore-removal
> 

I was reviewing your patches, and I don't like the semaphore to spinlock
changes.. There's no reason to start adding spinlocks, unless it's
really performance sensitive which none of those places are.. 

Also the ps3-gelic changes for instance is three locks in one patch. It
should be one lock per patch .. I have a broken out conversion for gelic
which I was going to submit in my next round ..

There's also a number of other people doing these , so you might want to
hold off on doing more unless you know they aren't already completed ..

Daniel

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