linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] locking/qrwlock: Allow multiple spinning readers

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Message-ID: <20160320104326.GM6344@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:	Sun, 20 Mar 2016 11:43:26 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@....com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Scott J Norton <scott.norton@....com>,
	Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] locking/qrwlock: Allow multiple spinning readers


We still have that starvation case in mutex, I would think that is far
more important to fix.