linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v2 3/5] futex: Throughput-optimized (TO) futexes

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Message-ID: <1474441172.27308.19.camel@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 21 Sep 2016 08:59:32 +0200
From:   Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com>
To:     Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@....com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
        Jason Low <jason.low2@....com>,
        Scott J Norton <scott.norton@....com>,
        Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@....com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 3/5] futex: Throughput-optimized (TO) futexes

On Tue, 2016-09-20 at 09:42 -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> This patch introduces a new futex implementation called
> throughput-optimized (TO) futexes.

nit: 'TO' sounds way too much like timeout... TP?  You even use 'to' as
shorthand for timeout in the next patch.

>  		/*
> -> 	> 	>  * Wake robust non-PI futexes here. The wakeup of
> -> 	> 	>  * PI futexes happens in exit_pi_state():
> +> 	> 	>  * Wake robust non-PI/TO futexes here. The wakeup of
> +> 	> 	>  * PI/TO futexes happens in exit_pi_state():
>  > 	> 	>  */

nit: comment attracted my eye during high speed scroll-by.

	-Mike