On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Alan Cox wrote: > > Also, isn't it overly restrictive to true SMP efforts to manage all > > semaphore wait queues under the control of a single, global lock? > > They don't take much time to work out, but yes it needs to be using smaller > locks in 2.3. i already have something for this, i have implemented quite finegrained locking for sem.c. Will post it once it's ready. (it's not all that trivial btw., the semaphore code is not structured in a way that can easily be threaded) -- mingo - Linux SMP list: FIRST see FAQ at http://www.irisa.fr/prive/mentre/smp-faq/ To Unsubscribe: send "unsubscribe linux-smp" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
