Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:56:58 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch 00/62] sem2mutex: -V1 |
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* Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de> wrote:
> Hi there, > > On Friday 13 January 2006 14:44, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > - it should stay a semaphore (if it's a genuine counting > > semaphore) > > > > - or it should get converted to a completion (if it's used as > > a completion) > > > > - or it should get converted to struct work (if it's used as a > > workflow synchronizer). > > Could we get for each of these and a mutex: > > - description > - common use case > - small argument why this and nothing else should be used there
like ... Documentation/mutex-design.txt?
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