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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 11/18] staging: vchiq_arm: use completions instead
 of semaphores
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> Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@suse.de> hat am 26. Oktober 2018 um 15:48 geschrieben:
> 
> 
> It is preferred in the kernel to avoid using semaphores to wait for
> events, as they are optimised for the opposite situation; where the
> common case is that they are available and may block only occasionally.
> FYI see this thread: https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/11/323.
> 
> Also completions are semantically more explicit in this case.
> 

Since patch #11 #12 and #13 doing the same, they could be fold.