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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] Lightweight userspace semaphores...
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    On February 25, 2002 08:31 pm, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    > On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
    > > Ok I see where you are coming from now -- that makes sense for a few
    > > cases.
    >
    > Note that the "few cases" in question imply _all_ of the current broken
    > library spinlocks, for example.
    >
    > Don't think "POSIX semaphores", but think "fast locking" in the general
    > case. I will bet you $1 in small change that most normal locking by far is
    > for the kind of thread-safe stuff libc does right now.

    This looks like another piece of the equation needed to make Larry's smp
    cluster concept come true. So...

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    Daniel
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