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    SubjectRe: furwocks: Fast Userspace Read/Write Locks
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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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