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SubjectRe: Locking scheme to block less
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, John Richard Moser wrote:
> Rik van Riel wrote:
> > On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, John Richard Moser wrote:

> >>Currently, the kernel uses only spin_locks,
> >
> > Oh ? Haven't you seen the read/write locks in
> > include/linux/spinlock.h or the lockless synchronisation
> > provided by include/linux/rcu.h ?
>
> No, last I looked was in 2.4, and it was a passing glance long ago.

We've had read write locks since 2.2...

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