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Message-ID: <20091125084804.GE29096@one.firstfloor.org> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:48:04 +0100 From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: [rfc] "fair" rw spinlocks > No that's what I meant, the new type would be non nestable. Okay. Unfortunately it's still quite a lot of work. %git/linux-2.6> gid rwlock_t | wc -l 221 Just tasklist_lock alone would be tough I guess, on level with one of your nasty VFS locks that protect a thousand different things without any comments. -Andi -- ak@...ux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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