On lau , 2005-04-30 at 11:49 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Benjamin LaHaise writes: > > > There are at least two users who need asynchronous semaphore/mutex > > operations: aio_write (which needs to acquire i_sem), and nfs. > > What do you mean by asynchronous semaphore/mutex operations? Are you > talking about a down operation that will acquire the semaphore if it > is free, but if not, arrange for a callback and return immediately, or > something?
Yes. See the iosem patches I posted a couple of weeks ago. Cheers, Trond -- Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
