Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:00:15 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/19] MUTEX: Introduce simple mutex implementation |
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* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 08:54:41AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > - i did not touch the 'struct semaphore' namespace, but introduced a > > > 'struct compat_semaphore'. > > > > Because it's totally braindead. Your compat_semaphore is a real > > semaphore and your semaphore is a mutex. So name them as such. > > well, i had the choice between a 30K patch, a 300K patch and a 3000K > patch. I went for the 30K patch ;-)
in that sense i'm all for going for the 300K patch, which is roughly the direction David is heading into: rename to 'struct mutex' but keep the down/up APIs, and introduce sem_down()/sem_up()/ for the cases that need full semaphores.
i dont think the 3000K patch (full API rename, introduction of mutex_down()/mutex_up()) is realistic.
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