Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: What if a TLB flush needed to sleep? | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:59:31 +0100 |
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On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 11:44 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > 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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