Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Apr 2005 11:26:56 +1000 | From | Paul Mackerras <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] unify semaphore implementations |
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Trond Myklebust writes:
> It started from a desire to extend the existing implementations to > support new features such as asynchronous notification. Currently that > sort of thing is impossible unless your developer-super-powers include > the ability to herd 24 different subsystem maintainers into working > together on a solution.
Well, maybe the slow paths could be unified somewhat, and then these extra features could be added in the slow paths. I would support that. I certainly don't support replacing the current optimized fast-path implementations with a lowest-common-denominator thing like Ben was proposing.
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