On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:00:21AM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
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> It's been a Good Idea for a while to use mutexes instead of
> semaphores where possible.  Additional debuggability, better optimised,
> better-enforced semantics, etc.
> 
> Obviously, there are some places that can't be converted to mutexes.
> I'm not proposing blind changes. 

Matthew, what's the plan for code using semaphores that cannot be
easily converted to something else? e.g. XFS?

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group
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