Re: [RFC] unify semaphore implementations

[Trond Myklebust]

On lau , 2005-04-30 at 11:49 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Benjamin LaHaise writes:
> 
> > There are at least two users who need asynchronous semaphore/mutex 
> > operations: aio_write (which needs to acquire i_sem), and nfs.  
> 
> What do you mean by asynchronous semaphore/mutex operations?  Are you
> talking about a down operation that will acquire the semaphore if it
> is free, but if not, arrange for a callback and return immediately, or
> something?

Yes. See the iosem patches I posted a couple of weeks ago.

Cheers,
  Trond

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Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>

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