Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Lightweight userspace semaphores... | Date | Sun, 24 Feb 2002 05:57:39 +0100 |
| |
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...
-- Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |