Re: [RFC PATCH v2 3/5] futex: Throughput-optimized (TO) futexes

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 07:37:34PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> On 09/21/2016 02:59 AM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> >On Tue, 2016-09-20 at 09:42 -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> >>This patch introduces a new futex implementation called
> >>throughput-optimized (TO) futexes.
> >nit: 'TO' sounds way too much like timeout... TP?  You even use 'to' as
> >shorthand for timeout in the next patch.
> 
> I agree. I am not that satisfied with the TO name. So I will change it to TP
> in my next revision of the patch. Thanks for the suggestion.

I'd leave out the TO part entirely (or only mention it in changelogs).

That is, I'd call the futex ops: FUTEX_LOCK and FUTEX_UNLOCK.