Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 May 2007 15:03:37 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] scalable rw_mutex |
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On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 03:15:42PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > Scalable reader/writer lock. > > Its scalable in that the read count is a percpu counter and the reader fast > path does not write to a shared cache-line. > > Its not FIFO fair, but starvation proof by alternating readers and writers.
While this implementation looks pretty nice I really hate growing more and more locking primitives. Do we have any rwsem user that absolutley needs FIFO semantics or could we convert all user over (in which case the objection above is of course completely moot)
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