Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Introduce down_nowait() | Date | Wed, 21 May 2008 22:09:16 +1000 |
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On Wednesday 21 May 2008 18:19:26 Andrew Morton wrote: > The number of down_trylocks in rc3 is 51 and the number of > down_trylocks and down_nowaits in -mm is 47. So progress is pretty > glacial. ... > Anyway, yes, I agree that the whole effort is a bit dubious and that > the time could be better directed to semaphore eliminations.
It is deeply annoying, even embarrassing, and trivial to fix. And as you say, process is glacial...
Cheers, Rusty.
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