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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores
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On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 19:46 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> writes:
> >
> > Yeah, I would open code it. But this is indeed a sane usage of the
> > counting semaphore because there is no priority inversion.
>
> But when you open code that, how is it different from just having
> semaphores?

Because we can then eventually get rid of semaphores, so those people
cannot mistakenly use them. Its just too easy to create prio inversion
with them around.



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