Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:37:20 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 5/6] MCS Lock: Restructure the MCS lock defines and locking code into its own file |
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* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 08:46:29AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > +/* > > > + * MCS lock defines > > > + * > > > + * This file contains the main data structure and API definitions of MCS lock. > > > > A (very) short blurb about what an MCS lock is would be nice here. > > A while back I suggested including a link to something like: > > http://www.cise.ufl.edu/tr/DOC/REP-1992-71.pdf > > Its a fairly concise write-up of the idea; only 6 pages. The sad part > about linking to the web is that links tend to go dead after a while.
So what I wanted to see was to add just a few sentences summing up the concept - so that people blundering into this file in include/linux/ have an idea what it's all about!
Thanks,
Ingo
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