Ingo Molnar wrote:
> futexes were not really designed with COW in mind - they were designed
> to be used in non-COW shared memory. This is a very bad limitation
I thought that futex-based locks were only reliable with PROT_SEM
memory, for architectures that define PROT_SEM (e.g. PPC) -- because of
the need for locking primitives to work in a cache coherent manner.
Is this not so?
-- Jamie
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