linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 05/10] IB/isert: Replace semaphore sem with completion

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Date:   Fri, 18 Nov 2016 14:40:13 +0530
From:   Binoy Jayan <binoy.jayan@...aro.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Mark Brown <broonie@...aro.org>
Cc:     Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>,
        Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@...el.com>,
        Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@...il.com>,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 05/10] IB/isert: Replace semaphore sem with completion

Hi Arnd,

On 18 November 2016 at 14:28, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
> On Friday, November 18, 2016 12:27:32 PM CET Binoy Jayan wrote:
>> Hi Sagi,

> I think you are right. This is behavior is actuallly documented in
> Documentation/scheduler/completion.txt:

Thanking for having a look.

> However, this is fairly unusual behavior and I wasn't immediately aware
> of it either when I read Sagi's reply. While your patch looks correct,
> it's probably a good idea to point out the counting behavior of this
> completion as explicitly as possible, in the changelog text of the patch
> as well as in a code comment and perhaps in the naming of the completion.

Will mention this and resend the patch series.

Thanks,
Binoy