On Monday 02 August 2004 23:04, Alan Stern wrote: > On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Duncan Sands wrote: > > > > I don't think people will stand for making ->serialize into an rwsem. > > > > Why is that? It seems natural. > > > > Duncan. > > This discussion seems dreadfully familiar. If you go look through the > excessively long thread starting with > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-usb-devel&m=107411847003938&w=2 > > you'll find that a large part of it (probably toward the end so you'll > have to skip over a lot of other stuff first) deals with converting > ->serialize in an rwsem. In general, people weren't in favor of the idea.
Hi Alan, as far as I can see the discussion boiled down to: the only reason to make it a rwsem is to reduce contention; and that needs to be justified by benchmarks. All the best, Duncan. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
