Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Jan 2002 16:50:04 +0100 | From | Manfred Spraul <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RFC] Lightweight user-level semaphores |
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> Actually, the more I look at Linus's original idea, the more > sense it seems to make (and the more I regret scrapping my > almost-complete implementation of it for the fd idea :)
Do you have a plan how to implement the no-contention case entirely in userspace? That would make them really fast, not just saving 50 or 100 cycles through a special syscall and bypassing VFS.
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