From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3E3884DA.9060600@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 20:50:18 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Linus rollup 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> In-Reply-To: <20030129180054.03ac0d48.akpm@digeo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , davem@redhat.com, shemminger@osdl.org, 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: Andrew Morton wrote: > #ifndef __LINUX_FRLOCK_H > #define __LINUX_FRLOCK_H > > /* > * Fast read-write spinlocks. Can we please pick a unique name whose meaning will not change over time? Even "andre[wa]_rw_lock" would be better, because its meaning is 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 :) Jeff -- 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/