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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Dong Feng <middle.fengdong@gmail.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Why Semaphore Hardware-Dependent?
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 08:07:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200608290807.40963.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44F395DE.10804@yahoo.com.au>

> and chuck out the "crappy" rwsem fallback implementation

What is crappy with it?

I went with it because there were some serious concerns about
the complexity of the i386 rwsem code and so far nobody has complained
about them being too slow.

But yes rwsems could need some big cleanup.

-Andi



  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-29  6:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-27 19:22 Why Semaphore Hardware-Dependent? Dong Feng
2006-08-27 20:52 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-27 21:05   ` Christoph Lameter
2006-08-27 21:39     ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-27 22:14       ` Christoph Lameter
2006-08-28  0:18 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-08-28  5:14   ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-08-28  5:21     ` Christoph Lameter
2006-08-28  5:56     ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-28 12:35     ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-08-28  7:23   ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-29  1:00     ` Paul Mackerras
2006-08-28  7:30 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-29  1:18   ` Nick Piggin
2006-08-29  6:07     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-09-13 17:54       ` Nick Piggin
2006-08-29 10:05     ` David Howells
2006-08-29 10:56       ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-29 17:40         ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-29 19:10         ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-08-29 15:56       ` Christoph Lameter
2006-08-29 16:20         ` Ralf Baechle
2006-08-29 16:25           ` David Howells
2006-08-29 16:28             ` Christoph Lameter
2006-08-29 16:57               ` David Howells
2006-08-29 16:53             ` Ralf Baechle
2006-08-29 16:58               ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-08-29 17:22         ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-29 17:36           ` Christoph Lameter
2006-08-29 18:18             ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-29 18:30               ` David Howells
2006-08-29 18:33                 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-29 18:56                   ` David Howells
2006-08-29 18:41               ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-13 18:04       ` Nick Piggin
2006-09-13 18:07         ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-13 18:13           ` Nick Piggin
2006-09-13 18:16             ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-13 18:50         ` David Howells
2006-09-13 19:25           ` Nick Piggin
2006-09-14 11:41             ` David Howells
2006-09-14 15:27               ` Nick Piggin
2006-09-14 15:38                 ` Nick Piggin
2006-09-15  8:59                 ` David Howells

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