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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2.6.17-mm1 4/3] ieee1394: convert ieee1394_transactions from semaphores to waitqueue
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 20:12:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1151172766.3181.75.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <449D7A53.4080605@s5r6.in-berlin.de>

On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 19:45 +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> I wrote:
> > There were 63 instances of counting semaphores used for each hpsb_host.
> > All of them are now replaced by a single wait_queue.
> 
> After this and patch "ieee1394: dv1394: sem2mutex conversion", the 
> following semaphores remain in the ieee1394 subsystem:
> 
> highlevel.c:  hl_drivers_sem    (RW semaphore)
> nodemgr.c:    subsys.rwsem      (driver core's RW semaphores)
> raw1394.c:    fi->complete_sem  (completion semaphore)

Hi,

can this last one move to an actual completion? That would get rid of it
nicely ;)

Greetings,
   Arjan van de Ven


  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-24 18:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found]   ` <30866.1151072338@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>
     [not found]     ` <tkrat.df6845846c72176e@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2006-06-24  9:32       ` [RFC PATCH 2.6.17-mm1 1/3] ieee1394: reduce size of hpsb_host by 252 bytes Stefan Richter
2006-06-24  9:33         ` [RFC PATCH 2.6.17-mm1 2/3] ieee1394: coarser locking for tlabel allocation Stefan Richter
2006-06-24  9:35           ` [RFC PATCH 2.6.17-mm1 3/3] ieee1394: nodemgr: read tlabel attributes atomically Stefan Richter
2006-06-24 17:32             ` [RFC PATCH 2.6.17-mm1 4/3] ieee1394: convert ieee1394_transactions from semaphores to waitqueue Stefan Richter
2006-06-24 17:45               ` Stefan Richter
2006-06-24 18:12                 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-06-24 20:28                   ` Stefan Richter
2006-06-24 20:56                     ` Stefan Richter
2006-06-25 19:37                   ` [RFC PATCH 2.6.17-mm1 5/3] ieee1394: raw1394: remove redundant counting semaphore Stefan Richter
2006-06-25 19:54                     ` Stefan Richter
2006-06-25 17:27               ` [RFC PATCH 2.6.17-mm1 4/3] ieee1394: convert ieee1394_transactions from semaphores to waitqueue Stefan Richter

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