On Friday 28 March 2008, Luck, Tony wrote: > > So it makes little sense to add this to semaphores. Better to introduce > > a spinaphore, as you say. > > > struct { > > atomic_t cur; > > int max; > > } ss_t; > > Could this API sneak into the bottom of one or the other of > linux/include/{spinlock,semaphore}.h ... or should it get its own > spinaphore.h file? > > Or should I follow Alan's earlier advice and keep this as an ia64 > only thing (since I'll be the only user). If you use the simple version suggested last by Willy, I think it could even be open-coded in your TLB management code. Should we decided to make it an official interface, I'd suggest putting it into atomic.h, because it operates on a plain atomic_t. Arnd <>< -- 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