On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Not sure I follow there. >> >> Original implementation: >> We have M threads sitting around the table, all of them trying to obtain food >> from the one bowl on the table and then eating it. >> Once the bowl is all eaten, we can stop. >> >> New pattern: >> One cook puts all the food items on the sushi-go-round-belt with a fancy plate >> and the threads grab them one by one still using locks (but they are internal to >> the belt). >> >> Are you saying we're content with just a bowl and everyone helps themselves >> for getting food? > > No. I am questioning how big overhead is for having the > go-round-belt that must hold all dishes to be eaten, which did not > exist in the original arrangement. > > Then please don't pick up this patch. This and patch 5 are there to convince Jeff this is a good API, worth being introduced and not over engineered, just solving a problem we're interested in with a minimal amount of code to side track from the actual goal we want to pursue. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html