Re: Why Semaphore Hardware-Dependent?

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Aug 29 2006 - 02:05:13 EST


> and chuck out the "crappy" rwsem fallback implementation

What is crappy with it?

I went with it because there were some serious concerns about
the complexity of the i386 rwsem code and so far nobody has complained
about them being too slow.

But yes rwsems could need some big cleanup.

-Andi


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