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Subject: Re: Kernel rwlock design, Multicore and IGMP
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 23:54:20 +0100
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On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 16:19 +0800, Am=C3=A9rico Wang wrote:
>=20
> Just for record, both Tile and X86 implement rwlock with a write-bias=
,
> this somewhat reduces the write-starvation problem.=20

x86 does no such thing.