Re: [RFC] New locking primitive for 2.5

Daniel Phillips
2002-02-07T20:53:44Z

On February 7, 2002 09:36 pm, yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
> > 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.

Not necessarily, look at Ingo's observation about replacing semaphores with
combi-locks as opposed to replacing spinlocks with combi-locks.

--
Daniel