Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: furwocks: Fast Userspace Read/Write Locks | Date | 7 Mar 2002 12:17:52 -0800 |
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Followup to: <20020307191043.9C5F33FE15@smtp.linux.ibm.com> By author: Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Take a look at Rusty's futex-1.2, the code is not that different, however > if its all inlined it creates additional code on the critical path > and why do it if not necessary. > > In this case the futexes are the well tested path, the rest is a cludge on > top of it. >
Perhaps someone could give a high-level description of how these "futexes" work?
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