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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: furwocks: Fast Userspace Read/Write Locks
Date: 7 Mar 2002 12:17:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a68htg$bc1$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16iwkE-000216-00@wagner.rustcorp.com.au> <20020307153228.3A6773FE06@smtp.linux.ibm.com> <20020307104241.D24040@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <20020307191043.9C5F33FE15@smtp.linux.ibm.com>

Followup to:  <20020307191043.9C5F33FE15@smtp.linux.ibm.com>
By author:    Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> Take a look at Rusty's futex-1.2, the code is not that different, however
> if its all inlined it creates additional code on the critical path 
> and why do it if not necessary.
> 
> In this case the futexes are the well tested path, the rest is a cludge on
> top of it.
> 

Perhaps someone could give a high-level description of how these
"futexes" work?

	-hpa
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-07 20:18 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
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 [this message]
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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