Re: [rfc] "fair" rw spinlocks

Andi Kleen
2009-11-25T08:48:02Z

> No that's what I meant, the new type would be non nestable.

Okay. Unfortunately it's still quite a lot of work.

%git/linux-2.6> gid rwlock_t | wc -l
221

Just tasklist_lock alone would be tough I guess, on level with one of your
nasty VFS locks that protect a thousand different things without any
comments.

-Andi
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