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

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Date:	Mon, 21 Mar 2016 22:21:23 -0400
From:	Waiman Long <waiman.long@....com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
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

On 03/20/2016 06:43 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> We still have that starvation case in mutex, I would think that is far
> more important to fix.

Peter, I am sorry that I let the mutex patch languish for a while. I 
will work on that next.

Cheers,
Longman