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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx•de>
Cc: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt•net>,
	Fredrik Kuivinen <frekui@gmail•com>,
	git@vger•kernel.org, Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic•net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix threaded grep for machines with only one cpu
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:26:06 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vvddwodox.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1002170200370.20986@pacific.mpi-cbg.de> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Wed\, 17 Feb 2010 02\:01\:03 +0100 \(CET\)")

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx•de> writes:

>> The program can decide at runtime not to use threading even if the support
>> is compiled in.  In such a case, mutexes are not necessary and left
>> uninitialized.  But the code incorrectly tried to take and release the
>> read_sha1_mutex unconditionally.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
>> Acked-by: Fredrik Kuivinen <frekui@gmail•com>
>> ---
>
> Yes, this one looks much, much nicer.

The structure may be much nicer, but one remaining thing is that I do not
think foo_locked() is a good name; IIRC, kernel folks use _locked() suffix
when the caller is expected to already hold the lock.  So a typical naming
convention goes like this:

	foo()
        {
        	lock();
                foo_locked();
                unlock();
        }

but what the patch did was the other way around:

	read_sha1_file_locked()
        {
        	lock();
                read_sha1_file();
                unlock();
	}

which is probably against the convention many readers of our codebase are
already familiar with.

We need a better name to unconfuse people, I think.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-17  1:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-15 22:50 [PATCH] fix threaded grep for machines with only one cpu Heiko Voigt
2010-02-15 23:09 ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-02-16  1:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-16  1:12   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-16  2:32   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-16  2:39     ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-16  7:54       ` Fredrik Kuivinen
2010-02-16  8:15       ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-02-16 23:59         ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-17  1:01           ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-02-17  1:26             ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2010-02-17  2:41               ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-02-17 22:43           ` Heiko Voigt
2010-02-18  9:10             ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-02-16 18:02       ` Heiko Voigt
2010-02-16 18:59         ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-02-16 19:20         ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-16 19:26           ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-02-16 20:00           ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-02-16 20:19             ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-02-16 20:37               ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-02-16 20:57             ` Heiko Voigt
2010-02-16 21:20               ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-02-16 22:54                 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-17 17:56                   ` Heiko Voigt
2010-02-17 15:29             ` Paolo Bonzini

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