From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pb0-f50.google.com (mail-pb0-f50.google.com [209.85.160.50]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1805A6B0031 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 04:40:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-pb0-f50.google.com with SMTP id uo5so843608pbc.9 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 01:40:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:40:10 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 5/6] MCS Lock: Restructure the MCS lock defines and locking code into its own file Message-ID: <20130926084010.GQ3081@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <1380147049.3467.67.camel@schen9-DESK> <20130926064629.GB19090@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130926064629.GB19090@gmail.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Tim Chen , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , Andrea Arcangeli , Alex Shi , Andi Kleen , Michel Lespinasse , Davidlohr Bueso , Matthew R Wilcox , Dave Hansen , Rik van Riel , Peter Hurley , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 08:46:29AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > +/* > > + * MCS lock defines > > + * > > + * This file contains the main data structure and API definitions of MCS lock. > > A (very) short blurb about what an MCS lock is would be nice here. A while back I suggested including a link to something like: http://www.cise.ufl.edu/tr/DOC/REP-1992-71.pdf Its a fairly concise write-up of the idea; only 6 pages. The sad part about linking to the web is that links tend to go dead after a while. -- 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/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org