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    SubjectRe: Announce: Semaphore-Removal tree
    On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:00:21AM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
    >
    > It's been a Good Idea for a while to use mutexes instead of
    > semaphores where possible. Additional debuggability, better optimised,
    > better-enforced semantics, etc.
    >
    > Obviously, there are some places that can't be converted to mutexes.
    > I'm not proposing blind changes.

    Matthew, what's the plan for code using semaphores that cannot be
    easily converted to something else? e.g. XFS?

    Cheers,

    Dave.
    --
    Dave Chinner
    Principal Engineer
    SGI Australian Software Group


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