[Ksummit-2008-discuss] topic proposal

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 05:05:52PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 04:39:10PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > Semaphores do we keep them or do we remove them?
> > 
> > I've had enough semaphore removal patches accepted that I think it's
> > already been decided .. However, it would seem at least Andi and Matthew
> > don't completely agree .. Which makes me wonder if there's other pockets
> > of people that either don't know about this, or have specific objections
> > to it..
> 
> Aren't there still a few places in the kernel that want a "counting
> mutex" that the semaphore code provides?  How is that going to be
> converted using mutexes?

Daniel thinks they all have "completion semantics".  Which they don't.

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