Re: [PATCH 0/8] infiniband: Remove semaphores

2016-10-17 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Monday, October 17, 2016 1:28:01 PM CEST Bart Van Assche wrote: > On 10/17/2016 01:06 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > Using an open-coded semaphore as a replacement is probably just > > the last resort that we can consider once we are down to the > > last handful of users. I haven't looked at drive

Re: [PATCH 0/8] infiniband: Remove semaphores

2016-10-17 Thread Bart Van Assche
On 10/17/2016 01:06 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: Using an open-coded semaphore as a replacement is probably just the last resort that we can consider once we are down to the last handful of users. I haven't looked at drivers/infiniband/ yet for this, but I believe that drivers/acpi/ is a case for whi

Re: [PATCH 0/8] infiniband: Remove semaphores

2016-10-17 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Monday, October 17, 2016 9:57:34 AM CEST Bart Van Assche wrote: > On 10/17/2016 09:30 AM, Binoy Jayan wrote: > > These are a set of patches which removes semaphores from infiniband. > > These are part of a bigger effort to eliminate all semaphores from the > > linux kernel. > > Hello Binoy, >

Re: [PATCH 0/8] infiniband: Remove semaphores

2016-10-17 Thread Bart Van Assche
On 10/17/2016 09:30 AM, Binoy Jayan wrote: These are a set of patches which removes semaphores from infiniband. These are part of a bigger effort to eliminate all semaphores from the linux kernel. Hello Binoy, Why do you think it would be a good idea to eliminate all semaphores from the Linux

[PATCH 0/8] infiniband: Remove semaphores

2016-10-17 Thread Binoy Jayan
Hi, These are a set of patches which removes semaphores from infiniband. These are part of a bigger effort to eliminate all semaphores from the linux kernel. NB: A few semaphores which are counting ones are replaced with an open-coded implementation by introducing a new type in 'include/rdma/ib_s