Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Mon Apr 14 2008 - 13:47:18 EST


Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> Yeah, I would open code it. But this is indeed a sane usage of the
> counting semaphore because there is no priority inversion.

But when you open code that, how is it different from just having
semaphores?

-Andi
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