Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/4] seqlock: introduce read-write seqlock

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 13/08/2013 11:09, Jan Kiszka ha scritto:
>>>> >>>
>>> >>
>>> >> As the usage pattern is
>>> >>
>>> >> seqlock_read_begin()
>>> >> do
>>> >>         ...
>>> >> while (seqlock_read_check())
>>> >>
>>> >> I would suggest to call the latter seqlock_read_retry(), just like the
>>> >> kernel does.
>>> >>
>> > I think it contains the meaning of check-success-or-retry. So may
>> > check be nicer?
> "Check" alone has no obvious semantic for me, therefore "retry".

I agree.  I was writing the patch without looking at any Linux code
(just to be safe since it's GPLv2-only) and misremembered the name of
the API.

Paolo