On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 18:39 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

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> > These need to be removed, but the usage is clearly not compatible with
> > the mutex API ..
> > 
> > If you convert them to atomic counts then you loose the sleeping aspect
> > of the semaphore, which you'd have to add back somehow.
> > 
> > The only API that seems straight forward is using complete's .. Then you
> > get an atomic count and all the sleeping function calls you might want..
> > (include/linux/completion.h) The problem with complete's is that you
> > can't start them out at "1" or "completed" unless you actually run
> > complete() once during initialization (that's kind of ugly) ..
> 
> A simple waitqueue would work.

I was just mulling over what the most straight forward way would be.. I
thought about wait queues, but the API didn't seem as easy to use a
completes..

Daniel

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