From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: Matthew Kirkwood <matthew@hairy.beasts.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Lightweight user-level semaphores
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 16:50:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C3F09AC.8EC143E2@colorfullife.com> (raw)
> Actually, the more I look at Linus's original idea, the more
> sense it seems to make (and the more I regret scrapping my
> almost-complete implementation of it for the fd idea :)
Do you have a plan how to implement the no-contention case entirely in
userspace?
That would make them really fast, not just saving 50 or 100 cycles
through a special syscall and bypassing VFS.
--
Manfred
next reply other threads:[~2002-01-11 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-11 15:50 Manfred Spraul [this message]
2002-01-11 16:15 ` [PATCH][RFC] Lightweight user-level semaphores Matthew Kirkwood
2002-01-11 17:03 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-13 12:38 ` Matthew Kirkwood
2002-01-13 12:55 ` Manfred Spraul
2002-01-13 15:13 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-14 1:35 ` Rusty Russell
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201081443540.8169-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
2002-01-09 23:23 ` Matthew Kirkwood
2002-01-11 5:55 ` Rusty Russell
2002-01-11 11:40 ` Matthew Kirkwood
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2002-01-07 20:05 Matthew Kirkwood
2002-01-07 20:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-01-07 22:03 ` Matthew Kirkwood
2002-01-07 22:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-01-08 13:56 ` Alan Cox
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