[RFC] [BZ 14417] Document condvar synchronization
Jeff Law
law@redhat.com
Wed Sep 26 16:34:00 GMT 2012
On 09/26/2012 10:05 AM, Torvald Riegel wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-09-21 at 12:21 -0600, Jeff Law wrote:
>> On 09/21/2012 12:03 PM, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
>>> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 02:34:46PM +0200, Torvald Riegel wrote:
>>>> Add explanation of condvar synchronization.
>>>
>>> I believe documentation for how condvars work should be in
>>> nptl/DESIGN-condvar.txt (which exists, but is slightly out of date).
>
> Putting it in DESIGN-condvar.txt is fine with me if everyone prefers
> that. However, I think it's better to put it closer to the source; that
> way, it's less easy to forget updating it.
So how about putting the additional documentation in DESIGN-condvar.txt
with a reference back to it from the various C & assembly implementations?
Jeff
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