Re: Why Semaphore Hardware-Dependent?

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Wed Sep 13 2006 - 14:08:05 EST


On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Nick Piggin wrote:

> Comments?

You only support 64k waiters. We have had cases of software failing
because more than 64k readers were waiting.

Please sent patches inline in order for us to be able to comment.

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