Re: [RFC] New locking primitive for 2.5

[yodaiken@fsmlabs.com]

On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 03:20:24PM -0500, Robert Love wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 15:15, yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
> 
> > I'd love to hear how things could be done right here. 
> > There seem to be 3 choices for reader writer locks
> 
> Assuming there is no
> 
> 	4. a solution that works
> 
> (and I do not assume that) we can just not do inheritance under

> reader-writer locks and that means they remain as spin locks.  Normal
> spin locks remain proper candidates.
> 
> I never mentioned anything about reader-writer locks in my original
> email.  Most of the long-held locks I am considering are not in this
> category anyway ...

I'm content to let it drop here, but I simply observe that you keep bringing
up the glorious future of inheritance without addressing any of the hard
problems. My contention is that the very capable Solaris engineers did not find the
(4) above because it does not exist.

> P.S. If this is going to turn into another priority-inheritance flame, I
> am stopping here.  Let's take it off-list or just drop it, please.  I'd
> much prefer to discuss the current combilock issue which is at hand. ;)

It's the same issue.


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