Re: [PATCH] Introduce down_nowait()

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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...>

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...>, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@...>

Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce down_nowait()

Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 8:09 am

On Wednesday 21 May 2008 18:19:26 Andrew Morton wrote:
quoted text> The number of down_trylocks in rc3 is 51 and the number of
> down_trylocks and down_nowaits in -mm is 47.  So progress is pretty
> glacial.
...
quoted text> Anyway, yes, I agree that the whole effort is a bit dubious and that
> the time could be better directed to semaphore eliminations.

It is deeply annoying, even embarrassing, and trivial to fix.  And as you say, 
process is glacial...

Cheers,
Rusty.
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[PATCH] Introduce down_nowait(), Rusty Russell, (Wed May 21, 2:00 am)

Re: [PATCH] Introduce down_nowait(), Andrew Morton, (Wed May 21, 2:29 am)

Re: [PATCH] Introduce down_nowait(), Christoph Hellwig, (Wed May 21, 4:04 am)

Re: [PATCH] Introduce down_nowait(), Andrew Morton, (Wed May 21, 4:19 am)

Re: [PATCH] Introduce down_nowait(), Rusty Russell, (Wed May 21, 8:09 am)

Re: [PATCH] Introduce down_nowait(), Rusty Russell, (Wed May 21, 3:56 am)

Re: [PATCH] Introduce down_nowait(), Daniel Walker, (Wed May 21, 1:04 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Introduce down_nowait(), Rusty Russell, (Thu May 22, 4:56 am)

Re: [PATCH] Introduce down_nowait(), Daniel Walker, (Thu May 22, 11:48 am)

Re: [PATCH] Introduce down_nowait(), Rusty Russell, (Thu May 22, 8:52 pm)


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