Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores

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From: Alan Cox

Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores

Date: Monday, April 14, 2008 - 12:16 pm

> Because we can then eventually get rid of semaphores, so those people
quoted text> cannot mistakenly use them. Its just too easy to create prio inversion
> with them around.

And it'll be far harder to even find the priority inversion problems in
the open coded alternatives.
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[PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Matthew Wilcox, (Fri Apr 11, 2:00 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Daniel Walker, (Fri Apr 11, 11:43 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Ingo Oeser, (Sat Apr 12, 3:31 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Peter Zijlstra, (Sat Apr 12, 5:24 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Matthew Wilcox, (Sat Apr 12, 10:26 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Daniel Walker, (Sat Apr 12, 11:01 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Peter Zijlstra, (Sat Apr 12, 11:05 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Matthew Wilcox, (Sat Apr 12, 12:04 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Peter Zijlstra, (Sat Apr 12, 12:16 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Roland Dreier, (Sat Apr 12, 12:53 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Matthew Wilcox, (Sat Apr 12, 1:47 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Ingo Molnar, (Sun Apr 13, 12:05 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Ingo Molnar, (Sun Apr 13, 12:08 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Matthew Wilcox, (Sun Apr 13, 5:52 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Matthew Wilcox, (Sun Apr 13, 5:57 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Bart Van Assche, (Sun Apr 13, 6:55 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Matthew Wilcox, (Sun Apr 13, 7:22 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Bart Van Assche, (Sun Apr 13, 7:55 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Ingo Molnar, (Mon Apr 14, 8:39 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Ingo Molnar, (Mon Apr 14, 8:41 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Roland Dreier, (Mon Apr 14, 8:58 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Peter Zijlstra, (Mon Apr 14, 9:32 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Jens Axboe, (Mon Apr 14, 9:54 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Arjan van de Ven, (Mon Apr 14, 9:56 am)

Re: API documentation (was [PATCH] Replace completions wit ..., Jonathan Corbet, (Mon Apr 14, 10:12 am)

Re: API documentation (was [PATCH] Replace completions wit ..., Peter Zijlstra, (Mon Apr 14, 10:33 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Andi Kleen, (Mon Apr 14, 10:46 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Matthew Wilcox, (Mon Apr 14, 10:46 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Matthew Wilcox, (Mon Apr 14, 10:50 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Peter Zijlstra, (Mon Apr 14, 10:54 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Daniel Walker, (Mon Apr 14, 11:09 am)

Re: API documentation (was [PATCH] Replace completions wit ..., Bart Van Assche, (Mon Apr 14, 11:38 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Andi Kleen, (Mon Apr 14, 12:16 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Alan Cox, (Mon Apr 14, 12:16 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Bart Van Assche, (Mon Apr 14, 11:18 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Peter Zijlstra, (Mon Apr 14, 11:46 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Bart Van Assche, (Tue Apr 15, 12:17 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Peter Zijlstra, (Tue Apr 15, 1:44 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Bart Van Assche, (Tue Apr 15, 6:15 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Apr 15, 9:09 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Andi Kleen, (Tue Apr 15, 9:27 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Apr 15, 9:57 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Ingo Molnar, (Tue Apr 15, 10:05 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Andi Kleen, (Tue Apr 15, 10:15 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Apr 15, 10:26 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Matthew Wilcox, (Tue Apr 15, 10:41 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Apr 15, 11:14 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Matthew Wilcox, (Tue Apr 15, 11:50 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Ingo Molnar, (Wed Apr 16, 5:37 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Andi Kleen, (Wed Apr 16, 5:50 am)

Killable stat/readdir, Matthew Wilcox, (Wed Apr 16, 5:59 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Ingo Oeser, (Wed Apr 16, 9:07 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Matthew Wilcox, (Wed Apr 16, 9:16 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Oliver Neukum, (Wed Apr 16, 9:31 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Matthew Wilcox, (Wed Apr 16, 9:34 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Oliver Neukum, (Wed Apr 16, 9:42 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Matthew Wilcox, (Wed Apr 16, 9:44 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Roland Dreier, (Wed Apr 16, 9:47 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Arjan van de Ven, (Wed Apr 16, 9:50 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Matthew Wilcox, (Wed Apr 16, 9:58 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Arjan van de Ven, (Wed Apr 16, 10:08 am)

Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores, Matthew Wilcox, (Wed Apr 16, 10:12 am)