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On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 18:15 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sat, 22 Jul 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > It was just wrong in conception. We should not and probably cannot fix it. > > Let's just delete it all, then implement version 2. > > Well, I just got Ashok's trial patches which turns the thing into a rwsem > as I outlined earlier. with rwsems being 100% fair... how is that going to make a difference? Other than just making the deadlock harder to trigger because the writer needs to come in just at the right time... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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