On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 11:41:16PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:31:17AM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: > > No this isn't what happened. My error was trying to see if there > > is a way to do it without barriers. In the end there wasn't. This > > has nothing to do with using primitives. > > Hmmm... yeah, you can say that, but it still was a failure to > recognize and apply the common pattern and what you're suggesting is > deviating for no good reason. It demands a lot of cognitive overhead > for something which should be routine and makes the code a lot more > fragile as a result. Things like this make barrier usages difficult > to understand and verify because it takes away a lot of ready-made > cognitive tools. So, let's please stick to the known pattern.
Well I disagree so let's leave it at that. -- Email: Herbert Xu <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
