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From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Cc: jidong xiao <jidong.xiao@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [linux-kernel]Why there are so many struct rw_semaphore being defined?
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 12:34:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <468B77A8.9020504@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200707041115.06233.oliver@neukum.org>

Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007 schrieb jidong xiao:
>> I see struct rw_semaphore is defined in
>> include/linux/rwsem-spinlock.h,in the meanwhile, I also can find it in
> 
> Quote:
> 
> #ifndef _LINUX_RWSEM_H
> #error "please don't include linux/rwsem-spinlock.h directly, use linux/rwsem.h instead"
> #endif
> 
>> include/asm-**/rwsem.h,for
>> example,include/asm-i386/rwsem.h,include/asm-x86_64/rwsem.h,why?which
>> one should be used?
> 
> This structure is so important to performance that some architectures
> have version optimized to their features.

...but of course we generally include linux/rwsem.h instead of
architecture-specific header files.  linux/rwsem.h will transparently
pull in the optimized variants for us.  (It's evident from the source.)
-- 
Stefan Richter
-=====-=-=== -=== --=--
http://arcgraph.de/sr/

      reply	other threads:[~2007-07-04 10:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-04  9:07 [linux-kernel]Why there are so many struct rw_semaphore being defined? jidong xiao
2007-07-04  9:15 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-07-04 10:34   ` Stefan Richter [this message]

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