linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC 1/3] Add a trigger API for efficient non-blocking waiting

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Date:	Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:47:29 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Christian Borntraeger <cborntra@...ibm.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/3] Add a trigger API for efficient non-blocking
 waiting

On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:34:13 -0700
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org> wrote:

> 
> The trigger API is simple:
> 
> To initialize a trigger, you can either do it statically with:

it looks a lot like a spinning completion ;-)

can we make it more simple by just having spinning versions of the wait
for completion functions?

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