Re: [patch] increase spinlock-debug looping timeouts (write_lockand NMI)

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 17:37 +1000,
> 
> Otherwise, a straight rwlock->spinlock conversion will have a few more
> scalability issues, but I'd guess it wouldn't be a problem  at all for
> most workloads on most systems.

I'm curious what scalability advantage you see for rw spinlocks vs real
spinlocks ... since for any kind of moderate hold time the opposite is
expected ;)


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