Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/5] Signal scalability series

Oleg Nesterov
2011-10-04T18:17:57Z

On 10/04, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Whatever we do with the locking, this can't remove O(nr_threads),
> > although read_lock() could help to reduce the contention.
>
> Read locks often make things worse.

Yes, yes, I see, thanks.

I meant that probably "more concurrency" was the reason for rwlock
this series adds.

Oleg.