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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] unify semaphore implementations
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 12:50:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1114879817.14213.25.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17010.58405.906123.715001@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

On lau , 2005-04-30 at 11:49 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Benjamin LaHaise writes:
> 
> > There are at least two users who need asynchronous semaphore/mutex 
> > operations: aio_write (which needs to acquire i_sem), and nfs.  
> 
> What do you mean by asynchronous semaphore/mutex operations?  Are you
> talking about a down operation that will acquire the semaphore if it
> is free, but if not, arrange for a callback and return immediately, or
> something?

Yes. See the iosem patches I posted a couple of weeks ago.

Cheers,
  Trond

-- 
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>


      reply	other threads:[~2005-04-30 16:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-28 18:29 Benjamin LaHaise
2005-04-28 18:48 ` James Bottomley
2005-04-28 18:59   ` Benjamin LaHaise
2005-04-28 18:53     ` David S. Miller
2005-04-28 22:40 ` Russell King
2005-04-29  0:42   ` Trond Myklebust
2005-04-29  1:26     ` Paul Mackerras
2005-04-28 22:54 ` David Howells
2005-04-29  0:44 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-04-29  5:33   ` Richard Henderson
2005-04-29 14:14   ` Benjamin LaHaise
2005-04-29 15:42     ` Trond Myklebust
2005-04-30  1:45       ` Paul Mackerras
2005-04-30  5:13         ` Paul Mackerras
2005-04-30 16:40         ` Trond Myklebust
2005-04-30  1:49     ` Paul Mackerras
2005-04-30 16:50       ` Trond Myklebust [this message]

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