From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] unify semaphore implementations
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 11:49:25 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17010.58405.906123.715001@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050429141437.GA24617@kvack.org>
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?
Paul.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-30 1:49 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 [this message]
2005-04-30 16:50 ` Trond Myklebust
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