Re: [PATCH] cleanup and remove some extra spinlocks from rtmutex

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Tue Aug 15 2006 - 06:19:43 EST


On 08/15, Esben Nielsen wrote:
>
> On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> >Sure, this needs a comment.
>
> It is even better if you can read the code without a comment. Good code
> doesn't need comments.

Yes. But from my point of view, the current code needs a comment to explain
why do we take ->pi_lock, this is hard to understand at least to me.

It is even better if we don't take ->pi_lock for ->wait_list manipulation.

Imho.

Oleg.

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