Re: Kernel rwlock design, Multicore and IGMP

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Sat Nov 13 2010 - 17:54:12 EST


On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 16:19 +0800, AmÃrico Wang wrote:
>
> Just for record, both Tile and X86 implement rwlock with a write-bias,
> this somewhat reduces the write-starvation problem.

x86 does no such thing.
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