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From: Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: furwocks: Fast Userspace Read/Write Locks
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 10:28:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020307152730.2BD483FE06@smtp.linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16iwkE-000216-00@wagner.rustcorp.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <E16iwkE-000216-00@wagner.rustcorp.com.au>

On Thursday 07 March 2002 07:11 am, Rusty Russell wrote:
> This is a userspace implementation of rwlocks on top of futexes.
>
> Release was delayed because tdbtorture started crashing... turns out
> it's unrelated 2.5.6-pre2 wierdness (after a good 6 hours debugging
> <SIGH>).
>
> So I don't have numbers, but I'm pretty sure this is as good as it
> gets without explicit kernel support for rwlocks.  Kudos to Paul
> Mackerras for the brainwork on this one.  Blame me for the name.
>
> 	ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/futex-1.2.tar.gz
>
> Cheers!
> Rusty.

I'll integrate these into the ulockflex and see what the numbers are
and whether the implementation is correct.


-- 
-- Hubertus Franke  (frankeh@watson.ibm.com)

      parent reply	other threads:[~2002-03-07 15:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-07 12:11 furwocks: Fast Userspace Read/Write Locks Rusty Russell
2002-03-07 12:40 ` Peter Wächtler
2002-03-07 14:41   ` Hubertus Franke
2002-03-07 12:50 ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-03-07 15:33   ` Hubertus Franke
2002-03-07 15:42     ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-03-07 19:11       ` Hubertus Franke
2002-03-07 20:17         ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-08  6:27           ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-08  6:29             ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-08  7:09               ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-08 19:32             ` Jamie Lokier
2002-03-08  1:22     ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-08  3:26       ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-08  9:21       ` Peter Wächtler
2002-03-08 18:13         ` Hubertus Franke
2002-03-09  4:50         ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-11 18:47           ` Hubertus Franke
2002-03-07 15:28 ` Hubertus Franke [this message]

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