Re: [RFC PATCH v2 3/5] futex: Throughput-optimized (TO) futexes

[Waiman Long]

On 09/22/2016 03:49 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 07:37:34PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> > On 09/21/2016 02:59 AM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2016-09-20 at 09:42 -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> > > > This patch introduces a new futex implementation called
> > > > throughput-optimized (TO) futexes.
> > > nit: 'TO' sounds way too much like timeout... TP?  You even use 'to' as
> > > shorthand for timeout in the next patch.
> > I agree. I am not that satisfied with the TO name. So I will change it to TP
> > in my next revision of the patch. Thanks for the suggestion.
> I'd leave out the TO part entirely (or only mention it in changelogs).
>
> That is, I'd call the futex ops: FUTEX_LOCK and FUTEX_UNLOCK.

I was following the convention for the PI futexes where we have 
FUTEX_LOCK_PI and FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI. If you think it is OK to promote this 
new futex as default for mutex type locks and use the PI futexes only 
when needed, I am certainly OK to drop the suffix.

Cheers,
Longman