Re: Announce: Semaphore-Removal tree

From: David Chinner
Date: Mon Apr 28 2008 - 01:11:19 EST


On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:00:21AM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>
> It's been a Good Idea for a while to use mutexes instead of
> semaphores where possible. Additional debuggability, better optimised,
> better-enforced semantics, etc.
>
> Obviously, there are some places that can't be converted to mutexes.
> I'm not proposing blind changes.

Matthew, what's the plan for code using semaphores that cannot be
easily converted to something else? e.g. XFS?

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group
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