[Ksummit-2008-discuss] topic proposal

Arjan van de Ven arjan at linux.intel.com
Wed Aug 27 08:25:41 PDT 2008


Andi Kleen wrote:
> What I think is not agreed is that semaphores with non mutex semantics
> should be forcibly converted to something else. None of the earlier
> arguments apply in this case. e.g. for your completion case:
> neither is there lockdep for completions, nor do they support PI, nor
> do they have better scheduling behaviour to my knowledge.

if something *truely* is a completion in terms of semantics it ought
to be changed to that. But we shouldn't try to fit everything into a completion,
that I absolutely agree with.



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