Re: [PATCH 1/5] locking: Introduce range reader/writer lock

[Davidlohr Bueso]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2017, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 09:03:26PM -0800, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> > +#define RANGE_RWLOCK_INFINITY  (~0UL - 1)
>
> > +#define DEFINE_RANGE_RWLOCK_INF(name)		\
> > +	struct range_rwlock name = __RANGE_RWLOCK_INITIALIZER(0, RANGE_RWLOCK_INFINITY)
>
> > +void range_rwlock_init_inf(struct range_rwlock *lock);
>
> Ayes I'm a pendant, but that's a very small infinity. I always thought
> infinity wasn't enumerable.

:-)

> Can we think of a different name here? 'whole' / 'all' / 'full' ?

Yeah, I guess 'all' is more suitable.