Re: [PATCH 4/6] kvm tools: Add rwlock wrapper

Pekka Enberg
2011-05-26T16:02:46Z

On Thu, 26 May 2011, Sasha Levin wrote:
> Adds a rwlock wrapper which like the mutex wrapper makes rwlock calls
> similar to their kernel counterparts.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>

There's no explanation why a mutex isn't sufficient. The pthread locking
primitives aren't all that great in practice so unless you have some
correctness issue that requires a rwlock or some numbers, I'd prefer you
go for a mutex.

Pekka