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Re: analysis of polling in systemtap

From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>
To: "Stone, Joshua I" <joshua dot i dot stone at intel dot com>
Cc: systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:20:05 -0500
Subject: Re: analysis of polling in systemtap
References: <CBDB88BFD06F7F408399DBCF8776B3DC05ECDB67@scsmsx403.amr.corp.intel.com>

Hi -

On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 11:57:52AM -0800, Stone, Joshua I wrote:
> Perhaps it's the wrong approach to invent a new syntax for everything
> that users might want to do atomically on an array.  

Well, I hope not *everything*.  I was only kidding about LISP LOOP.

> Can we instead allow the user to explicitly lock/release variables?
> [...]

Perhaps ...  though it's been my preference to make implicit as many
facilities as reasonable and possible.  Can you imagine some plausible
scenarios where explicit locking over global variables may be
necessary to script programmers?

- FChE

References:
- RE: analysis of polling in systemtap
  - From: Stone, Joshua I

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