From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: Linus rollup From: Stephen Hemminger In-Reply-To: <20030130020359.GV1237@dualathlon.random> References: <20030129022617.62800a6e.akpm@digeo.com> <1043879752.10150.387.camel@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net> <20030129151206.269290ff.akpm@digeo.com> <20030129.163034.130834202.davem@redhat.com> <20030129172743.1e11d566.akpm@digeo.com> <20030130013522.GP1237@dualathlon.random> <20030129180054.03ac0d48.akpm@digeo.com> <3E3884DA.9060600@pobox.com> <20030130020359.GV1237@dualathlon.random> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1043946568.10155.583.camel@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: 30 Jan 2003 09:09:28 -0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Jeff Garzik , Andrew Morton , David Miller , rmk@arm.linux.org.uk, ak@muc.de, davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com, anton@samba.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, rth@twiddle.net List-ID: > > not tied to performance at this specific point in time, on today's ia32 > > flavor-of-the-month. > > > > If we discover even-yet-faster read-write spinlocks tomorrow, this name > > is going to become a joke :) > > it would become historical, like so many other things. Actually when > they say frlock I don't even think at fast read lock, I think at frlock > as a specific new name, so personally I'm fine either ways. I don't > dislike it, it's not worse than the big reader lock name that should be > replaced by RCU at large btw. Don't read too much into the name. It was just a 30 second effort. Just didn't want a name like: ThingToDoReadConsitentDataUsingSequenceNumbers So if there is a standard or better name in a reasonable length, then let's change it. Marketing always changes the name of everything prior to release anyway ;-) -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/