Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:12:50 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: Announce: Semaphore-Removal tree |
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On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 01:38:37PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > I was reviewing your patches, and I don't like the semaphore to spinlock > changes.. There's no reason to start adding spinlocks, unless it's > really performance sensitive which none of those places are..
Yes, there is. The spinlock is our most efficient locking primitive for the normal mostly un-contentded case. Please get out of your realtime-ghetto.
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