On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 11:44 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > confusion between semaphores and rwsems > > rwsem is not a semaphore despite its name? What do you want to call it > then? Its not a real counting semaphore, a sleeping rw lock might be a better name as opposed to the contradition rw-mutex :-) But lets just call it a rwsem; we all know what that is. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html