Re: [PATCH 0/8] infiniband: Remove semaphores

From: Bart Van Assche
Date: Mon Oct 17 2016 - 13:10:34 EST


On 10/17/2016 09:30 AM, Binoy Jayan wrote:
These are a set of patches which removes semaphores from infiniband.
These are part of a bigger effort to eliminate all semaphores from the
linux kernel.

Hello Binoy,

Why do you think it would be a good idea to eliminate all semaphores from the Linux kernel? I don't know anyone who doesn't consider semaphores a useful abstraction.

Thanks,

Bart.