Messages in this thread | | | From | Hubertus Franke <> | Subject | Re: furwocks: Fast Userspace Read/Write Locks | Date | Thu, 7 Mar 2002 10:33:32 -0500 |
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On Thursday 07 March 2002 07:50 am, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > Rusty Russell wrote: > > This is a userspace implementation of rwlocks on top of futexes. > > question: if rwlocks aren't actually slower in the fast path than > futexes, > would it make sense to only do the rw variant and in some userspace > layer > map "traditional" semaphores to write locks ? > Saves half the implementation and testing.... > - > 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/
I m not in favor of that. The dominant lock will be mutexes. -- -- Hubertus Franke (frankeh@watson.ibm.com) - 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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