Re: Why Semaphore Hardware-Dependent?
From: Nick Piggin
Date: Wed Sep 13 2006 - 13:55:03 EST
[sorry, I missed some emails when I was out of action a while back. Catching up...]
Andi Kleen wrote:
and chuck out the "crappy" rwsem fallback implementation
What is crappy with it?
I just mean that it is supposedly the second class implementation. Just
seems wrong when powerpc has implemented the "better" version in a completely
generic way (patch to follow).
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