Messages in this thread | | | From | Hubertus Franke <> | Subject | Re: furwocks: Fast Userspace Read/Write Locks | Date | Thu, 7 Mar 2002 10:28:34 -0500 |
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On Thursday 07 March 2002 07:11 am, Rusty Russell wrote: > This is a userspace implementation of rwlocks on top of futexes. > > Release was delayed because tdbtorture started crashing... turns out > it's unrelated 2.5.6-pre2 wierdness (after a good 6 hours debugging > <SIGH>). > > So I don't have numbers, but I'm pretty sure this is as good as it > gets without explicit kernel support for rwlocks. Kudos to Paul > Mackerras for the brainwork on this one. Blame me for the name. > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/futex-1.2.tar.gz > > Cheers! > Rusty.
I'll integrate these into the ulockflex and see what the numbers are and whether the implementation is correct.
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