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Message-Id: <1219779046.3797.12.camel@dhcp32.mvista.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:30:46 -0700
From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
Robert Moore <robert.moore@...el.com>,
linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] acpi: semaphore removal
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 13:13 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:59:49AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > The semaphore usage in ACPI is more like completions. The ASL
>
> Huh? They are semaphores. They're not 'more like completions' at all.
You can clearly make a completion out of a semaphore, but we have a
completion API .. ACPI is using locked semaphores, and essentially
re-making completions with the semaphore API..
Daniel
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