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On 13 Oct 2001, Andi Kleen wrote: > In article <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110131015410.8707-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>, > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes: > > > - nobody has shown a case where existing normal locking ends up being > > really a huge problem, and where RCU clearly helps. > > The poster child of such a case is module unloading. Keeping reference > counts for every even non sleeping use of a module is very painful. > The current "fix" -- putting module count increases in all possible module > callers to fix the unload races is slow and ugly and far too subtle to > get everything right. Waiting quiescent periods before unloading is a nice > alternative. ... while quiescent stuff is _not_ subtle and not prone to breakage. Right. In the same world where Vomit-Making System is elegant, SGI "designs" are and NT is The Wave Of Future(tm). Pardon me, but I'll stay in our universe and away from the drugs of such power. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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