From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: furwocks: Fast Userspace Read/Write Locks
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 12:50:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C8761FF.A10E50D9@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16iwkE-000216-00@wagner.rustcorp.com.au>
Rusty Russell wrote:
>
> This is a userspace implementation of rwlocks on top of futexes.
question: if rwlocks aren't actually slower in the fast path than
futexes,
would it make sense to only do the rw variant and in some userspace
layer
map "traditional" semaphores to write locks ?
Saves half the implementation and testing....
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-07 12:50 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 [this message]
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
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