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DateMon, 28 Apr 2008 15:10:40 +1000
FromDavid Chinner <>
SubjectRe: Announce: Semaphore-Removal tree
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.
-- 
Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group


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