Re: [RFC] New locking primitive for 2.5

Robert Love
2002-02-07T20:10:14Z

On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 14:58, yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 01:40:59PM -0500, Robert Love wrote:
> > We shouldn't engage in wholesale changing of spinlocks to semaphores
> > without a priority-inheritance mechanism. And _that_ is the bigger
> > issue ...
>
> Cool. We can then have the Solaris "this usually doesn't fail on test" priority
> inherit read/write lock. I can hardly wait.

Or, we could do things right and not.

Robert Love