On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 06:26:25PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 12:33:35PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote: > > > >Folks, any suggestions on better names? The semantics we are getting is > > > > I will welcome any better name suggestion and will incorporate that > > in the patch. > > FWIW, the suggestions I've seen so far had been > > seq_exreadlock() [ex for exclusive] > seq_exclreadlock() [ditto, and IMO fails the "easily read over the phone" > test - /sekv-excre...ARRGH/] > seq_prot_readlock() [prot for protected, as in DLM protected read]
Though the DLM protected read doesn't self-conflict either so that's a poor analogy, my bad. (Do the users really require that the read be exclusive?) --b. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
