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Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 23:03:14 +0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v0] add nano semaphore in kernel
From: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
To: Daniel Walker <dwalker@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
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On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Daniel Walker <dwalker@codeaurora.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 22:42 +0800, Hillf Danton wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>> > On Tuesday 28 December 2010 16:51:30 Daniel Walker wrote:
>> >> We for sure don't want new semaphores, or new semaphore usage in the
>> >> kernel ..
>>
>> Would you please, Daniel, explain why there are so my file systems under
>> the fs directory? Would you think the ext file system is better than others?
>>
>> And why there are in kernel spin lock, read/write lock, mutex, rw_mutex,
>> rtmutx, and semaphore, timer and hrtimer?
>>
>> Could timer be removed tonight?
>
> The problem with semaphores is that people use them in ways that are not
> very nice, and not very efficient.. Since they are so flexible they can
> be used in all sorts of ways, many of which are not clean. This is why,
> if you read the kernel history, most semaphore have been removed from
> the kernel and replaced with much nicer and cleaner mutexes.
>
> Daniel

Thanks for sharing the knowledge about rtmutx and semaphore.
Hillf
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