Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 19 Sep 2001 20:47:20 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: Deadlock on the mm->mmap_sem |
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On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 07:26:33PM +0100, David Howells wrote: > > if we go generic then I strongly recommend my version of the generic > > semaphores is _much_ faster (and cleaner) than this one > > Not so:-) Your patch, Andrea, grabs the spinlock far more than is necessary.
then why your microbenchmarks says my version is much faster?
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