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FromDavid Howells <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/19] MUTEX: Introduce simple mutex implementation
DateTue, 13 Dec 2005 11:34:14 +0000
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:

> > Any reason why you're setting up your own style of waitqueue in
> > mutex-simple.c instead of just using the kernel's style of waitqueue?
>
> Because I can steal the code from FRV's semaphores or rw-semaphores, and this
> way I can be sure of what I'm doing.

And because:

struct mutex {
int state;
wait_queue_head_t wait_queue;
};
Wastes 8 more bytes of memory than:

struct mutex {
int state;
spinlock_t wait_lock;
struct list_head wait_list;
};
on a 64-bit machine if spinlock_t is 4 bytes. Both waste 4 bytes if spinlock_t
is 8 bytes.

David
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