Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:33:05 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch] increase spinlock-debug looping timeouts (write_lock and NMI) |
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* Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> Otherwise, a straight rwlock->spinlock conversion will have a few more > scalability issues, but I'd guess it wouldn't be a problem at all for > most workloads on most systems.
curious, do you have any (relatively-) simple to run testcase that clearly shows the "scalability issues" you mention above, when going from rwlocks to spinlocks? I'd like to give it a try on an 8-way box.
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