| Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/19] MUTEX: Introduce simple mutex implementation | From | Daniel Walker <> | Date | Mon, 12 Dec 2005 16:57:38 -0800 |
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On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 23:45 +0000, David Howells wrote:
> (1) Provides a simple xchg() based semaphore as a default for all > architectures that don't wish to override it and provide their own. > > Overriding is possible by setting CONFIG_ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_MUTEX and > supplying asm/mutex.h > > Partial overriding is possible by #defining mutex_grab(), mutex_release() > and is_mutex_locked() to perform the appropriate optimised functions.
Your code is really similar to the RT mutex, which does everything that your mutex does at least ? Assuming you've reviewed the RT mutex, why would we want to use yours over it?
Daniel
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