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From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: sclark46@earthlink.net,
	William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@gmail.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Developers <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Documentation: rw_lock lessons learned
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:59:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AFD1FF1.7080906@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091112150029.1a26c641@nehalam>

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:13:03 -0500
> Stephen Clark <sclark46@earthlink.net> wrote:
>> How up to date is this doc?
>> 
>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/kernel-locking/index.html
>> 
> 
> Out of date.
> 1. Missing mutex's which have largely replaced semaphores.
> 
> 2. Missing change to lock initialization in later kernels.
> 
> 3. Missing description of lock dependency checker which should be in same guide.

4. The section on atomic reference counting should refer to <linux/kref.h>.
-- 
Stefan Richter
-=====-==--= =-== -==-=
http://arcgraph.de/sr/

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-13  8:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-10 19:55 [PATCH resent] Documentation: rw_lock lessons learned William Allen Simpson
2009-11-10 21:22 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-11-11  2:06 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-11 17:08   ` William Allen Simpson
2009-11-11 17:37     ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-12 11:06       ` [PATCH v2] " William Allen Simpson
2009-11-12 15:40         ` Linus Torvalds
2009-11-12 17:04         ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-12 19:13         ` Stephen Clark
2009-11-12 23:00           ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-13  8:59             ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2009-11-13 16:15               ` William Allen Simpson
2009-12-11 17:01         ` [PATCH v2] " William Allen Simpson
2009-12-11 21:07           ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-12-12 10:36             ` William Allen Simpson

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