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SubjectRe: [patch 00/62] sem2mutex: -V1

* 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?

Ingo
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