From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Amir Levy <amir.jer.levy@intel.com>
Cc: andreas.noever@gmail.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
bhelgaas@google.com, corbet@lwn.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
thunderbolt-linux@intel.com, mika.westerberg@intel.com,
tomas.winkler@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 4/8] thunderbolt: Communication with the ICM (firmware)
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 14:02:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160729140224.137dbaac@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1469693721-5641-5-git-send-email-amir.jer.levy@intel.com>
On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 11:15:17 +0300
Amir Levy <amir.jer.levy@intel.com> wrote:
> +static LIST_HEAD(controllers_list);
> +static DECLARE_RWSEM(controllers_list_rwsem);
Why use a semaphore when simple spinlock or mutex would be better?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-29 21:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-28 8:15 [PATCH v5 0/8] thunderbolt: Introducing Thunderbolt(TM) networking Amir Levy
2016-07-28 8:15 ` [PATCH v5 1/8] thunderbolt: Macro rename Amir Levy
2016-07-28 8:15 ` [PATCH v5 2/8] thunderbolt: Updating the register definitions Amir Levy
2016-07-28 8:15 ` [PATCH v5 3/8] thunderbolt: Kconfig for Thunderbolt(TM) networking Amir Levy
2016-07-28 8:15 ` [PATCH v5 4/8] thunderbolt: Communication with the ICM (firmware) Amir Levy
2016-07-29 21:02 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2016-07-29 21:48 ` Greg KH
2016-07-31 10:18 ` Levy, Amir (Jer)
2016-07-29 21:03 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-07-31 12:07 ` Levy, Amir (Jer)
2016-07-28 8:15 ` [PATCH v5 5/8] thunderbolt: Networking state machine Amir Levy
2016-07-28 11:35 ` Lukas Wunner
2016-07-31 11:58 ` Levy, Amir (Jer)
2016-07-28 8:15 ` [PATCH v5 6/8] thunderbolt: Networking transmit and receive Amir Levy
2016-07-29 21:07 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-07-31 10:15 ` Levy, Amir (Jer)
2016-07-31 18:45 ` David Miller
2016-08-01 4:30 ` Levy, Amir (Jer)
2016-07-28 8:15 ` [PATCH v5 7/8] thunderbolt: Networking doc Amir Levy
2016-07-28 8:15 ` [PATCH v5 8/8] thunderbolt: Adding maintainer entry Amir Levy
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