Re: [patch 09/15] Generic Mutex Subsystem, mutex-migration-helper-x86_64.patch

On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 02:38:27AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> introduce the arch_semaphore type on x86_64, to ease migration to 
> mutexes.

As a small feedback I don't think the name arch_semaphore
is very good because it means nothing.  How about counting_semaphore 
which is what it actually is? 

-Andi

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