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Lock naming

Lock naming

Posted Sep 29, 2009 21:08 UTC (Tue) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Lock naming by niv
Parent article: The realtime preemption mini-summit

Call them sleepy locks then.


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Lock naming

Posted Sep 30, 2009 12:03 UTC (Wed) by nevets (subscriber, #11875) [Link]

goldielocks was indeed mentioned. But the sleepy locks were not. I'll have to have Jon add that one to the list of possibilities. :-)

Lock naming

Posted Oct 11, 2009 16:34 UTC (Sun) by efexis (guest, #26355) [Link]

Sleepy sounds like they might run a bit slow and probably need to sleep... if the locks may end up sleeping due to external conditions then it should be a narcolocksy :-)

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