linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] posix-timers: move global timer id management to signal

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Date:	Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:11:10 -0700
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
CC:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, tglx@...utronix.de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] posix-timers: move global timer id management to
 signal_struct v4

> I'll provide not a hack but a clean patch for this.

Great thanks.
> I read once idr code, and its not messy at all.
You're not serious right? Especially the locking scheme is just
a extreme mess:

sometimes takes a lock, sometimes requires locking from the caller
even though the internal lock should be fine, sometimes uses unlocked 
bitmap
operations outside a lock, all mixed with a partial RCU implementation,
no assumption is documented of course.  etc.etc. It's a great poster child
for messy kernel code.

I read the code and I would be afraid touching it.

-Andi

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