Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] New locking primitive for 2.5 | From | Robert Love <> | Date | 07 Feb 2002 15:08:02 -0500 |
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On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 14:58, yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 01:40:59PM -0500, Robert Love wrote: > > We shouldn't engage in wholesale changing of spinlocks to semaphores > > without a priority-inheritance mechanism. And _that_ is the bigger > > issue ... > > Cool. We can then have the Solaris "this usually doesn't fail on test" priority > inherit read/write lock. I can hardly wait.
Or, we could do things right and not.
Robert Love
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