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FromAndi Kleen <>
SubjectRe: Why Semaphore Hardware-Dependent?
DateTue, 29 Aug 2006 08:07:40 +0200
> and chuck out the "crappy" rwsem fallback implementation
What is crappy with it?

I went with it because there were some serious concerns about
the complexity of the i386 rwsem code and so far nobody has complained
about them being too slow.

But yes rwsems could need some big cleanup.

-Andi


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