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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
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On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 15:00 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> So does it make sense to retain the completion as a primitive
> in Linux? 

My take on it is the opposite: kill off semaphores and leave the
completions around.