| Date | Thu, 10 Aug 2006 05:57:11 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [patch] Use rwsems instead of custom locking scheme in net/socket.c and net/dccp/ccid.c | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Frederik Deweerdt <deweerdt@free.fr> Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:13:36 +0200
> This patch aims at removing two implementations (spotted by Masatake YAMATO) of > pseudo-rwlocks using a spinlock_t and an atomic_t. One in net/socket.c > and another in net/bluetooth/af_bluetooth.c. I think that both could be > converted to rwsems, saving some lines of code.
The net/socket.c one has been converted to RCU by Stephen Hemminger already.
If the bluetooth case is in an important code path it should use RCU as well. - 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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