Re: Announce: Semaphore-Removal tree

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 01:38:37PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> I was reviewing your patches, and I don't like the semaphore to spinlock
> changes.. There's no reason to start adding spinlocks, unless it's
> really performance sensitive which none of those places are.. 

Yes, there is.  The spinlock is our most efficient locking primitive
for the normal mostly un-contentded case.  Please get out of your
realtime-ghetto.

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