netdev - Re: Kernel rwlock design, Multicore and IGMP

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Message-ID: <1289688860.2109.401.camel@laptop>
Date:	Sat, 13 Nov 2010 23:54:20 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Cypher Wu <cypher.w@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel rwlock design, Multicore and IGMP

On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 16:19 +0800, Américo 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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