From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 09:15:55 -0800 (PST) From: "Randy.Dunlap" Subject: Re: Linus rollup In-Reply-To: <1043946568.10155.583.camel@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , 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: On 30 Jan 2003, Stephen Hemminger wrote: | > > 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 ;-) You can follow Andrea's suggestion and call it a kaos_lock (for Keith Owens). -- ~Randy -- 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/