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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] reader-writer livelock problem
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 17:52:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590709805365@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590709805355@msgid-missing>

On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 11:41:57AM -0600, Van Maren, Kevin wrote:
> processor to acquire/release the lock once.  So with 32 processors
> contending for the lock, at 1us per cache-cache transfer (picked

if you have 32 processors contending for the same spinlock, you have
bigger problems.

-- 
Revolutions do not require corporate support.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-11-08 17:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-08  3:23 [Linux-ia64] reader-writer livelock problem Van Maren, Kevin
2002-11-08 17:13 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2002-11-08 17:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-08 17:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-08 17:34 ` David Howells
2002-11-08 17:38 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2002-11-08 17:41 ` Van Maren, Kevin
2002-11-08 17:43 ` David Howells
2002-11-08 17:52 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2002-11-08 17:54 ` David Howells
2002-11-08 17:55 ` Stephen Hemminger
2002-11-08 18:05 ` Van Maren, Kevin
2002-11-08 19:19 ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-11-08 19:26 ` David Mosberger
2002-11-08 20:17 ` Van Maren, Kevin
2002-11-08 20:39 ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-11-09  2:48 ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-11 16:29 ` Mario Smarduch
2002-11-11 20:01 ` [Linux-ia64] reader-writer livelock proble Mario Smarduch

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