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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609131106260.18264@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:07:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
cc: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
Dong Feng <middle.fengdong@...il.com>, ak@...e.de,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why Semaphore Hardware-Dependent?
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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