From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Rick Brown" Subject: reader-writer spinlocks Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 09:15:45 +0530 Message-ID: <7783925d0704042045va8a015bree261c74900567db@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=QRWKSl3XBUF3/4BZDZvkQbT3Hqee+6yHfS16/yo7WgPDIxaIkL4r3HQxZclT0NgJgIuyu+km+jK+T4m+FjP0nYmZ3uej/ffp0Xl/nxAUwelWidR0TjQKqdXVkvk3A09jtcNEwcnXI7SZVG7fUlUoxFLfwpFQmQx6QJrqol3gZwo= Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: kernelnewbies , linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Hi LIst, This is about reader-writer spinlocks. The Robert love's book says that Readers are given preference over writers, where as LDD3 says writers are given preference over readers. So which one is correct? And about reader-writer semaphores? Thanks, Rick - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" 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.linux-learn.org/faqs