Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:57:07 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores |
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On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > - probably add support for completions to do counting > > But that's just a semaphore, isn't it?
Exactly. But the point here is:
- nobody should use semaphores anyway (use mutexes) - making *more* code use semaphores is wrong - completions have a different _mental_ model
IOW, this is not about implementation issues. It's about how you think about the operations.
We should _not_ implement completions as semaphores, simply because we want to get *rid* of semaphores some day.
So rather than this long and involved patch series that first makes semaphores generic, and then makes them be used as completions, I'd much rather just skip this whole pointless exercise entirely.
Why have "generic semaphores" at all, if we want to get rid of them?
Linus
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