Re: [patchset] Lockfree fd lookup 0 of 5

[David S. Miller]

On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 17:56:07 +0100
viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> How about this for comparison?  That's just a dumb "convert to rwlock"
> patch; we can be smarter in e.g. close_on_exec handling, but that's a
> separate story.

Compares to plain spinlocks, rwlock's don't buy you much,
if anything, these days.

Especially for short sequences of code.
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