Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:56:58 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
       Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
       Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/62] sem2mutex: -V1
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* Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de> wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> On Friday 13 January 2006 14:44, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >     - it should stay a semaphore (if it's a genuine counting 
> >       semaphore)
> > 
> >     - or it should get converted to a completion (if it's used as
> >       a completion)
> > 
> >     - or it should get converted to struct work (if it's used as a 
> >       workflow synchronizer).
> 
> Could we get for each of these and a mutex:
> 
>  - description 
>  - common use case
>  - small argument why this and nothing else should be used there

like ... Documentation/mutex-design.txt?

	Ingo
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