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SubjectRe: What if a TLB flush needed to sleep?
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On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 11:44 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
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> > confusion between semaphores and rwsems
>
> rwsem is not a semaphore despite its name? What do you want to call it
> then?

Its not a real counting semaphore, a sleeping rw lock might be a better
name as opposed to the contradition rw-mutex :-)

But lets just call it a rwsem; we all know what that is.




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