Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:10:40 +1000 | From | David Chinner <> | Subject | Re: Announce: Semaphore-Removal tree |
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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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