Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] increase spinlock-debug looping timeouts (write_lock and NMI) | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:43:12 +0200 |
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On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 17:37 +1000, > > Otherwise, a straight rwlock->spinlock conversion will have a few more > scalability issues, but I'd guess it wouldn't be a problem at all for > most workloads on most systems.
I'm curious what scalability advantage you see for rw spinlocks vs real spinlocks ... since for any kind of moderate hold time the opposite is expected ;)
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