From: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
To: Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
matthew@hairy.beasts.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: futex and timeouts
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 19:28:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020315192818.R4836@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020314151846.EDCBF3FE07@smtp.linux.ibm.com> <20020315151507.2370C3FE0C@smtp.linux.ibm.com> <20020315160444.P4836@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20020315185844.8883E3FE06@smtp.linux.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020315185844.8883E3FE06@smtp.linux.ibm.com>; from frankeh@watson.ibm.com on Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 01:59:38PM -0500
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 01:59:38PM -0500, Hubertus Franke wrote:
> > > What I would like to see is an interface that lets me pass optional
> > > parameters to the syscall interface, so I can call with different number
> > > of parameters.
> >
> > Is this to lock multiple futexes "atomically"? If we are
> > looking for a fast path stack-wise, this seems extra work.
>
> No, take for example...
>
> syscall3(int,futex,int,op, struct futex*, futex, int opt_arg);
Oh, I totally misparsed your statement. I thought you meant you
wanted a vararg sys_futex(), not a smarter _syscall() :-)
Joel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-15 19:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-13 18:26 futex and timeouts Hubertus Franke
2002-03-13 18:54 ` Ulrich Drepper
2002-03-14 4:15 ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-14 15:19 ` Hubertus Franke
2002-03-15 5:39 ` [PATCH] " Rusty Russell
2002-03-15 6:08 ` Joel Becker
2002-03-15 6:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-15 8:49 ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-15 15:16 ` Hubertus Franke
2002-03-15 16:04 ` Joel Becker
2002-03-15 18:59 ` Hubertus Franke
2002-03-15 19:28 ` Joel Becker [this message]
2002-03-16 1:12 ` [Lse-tech] " george anzinger
2002-03-18 21:35 ` Hubertus Franke
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