Re: Cheap lock for user mode processes release when process exits

2007-04-12 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:54:28 + (GMT) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Maybe someone here knows better. > > I have several user-mode processes using shared mmap. There can be several > reader processes and only one writer. Readers access the shared region > frequently, writer

Cheap lock for user mode processes release when process exits

2007-04-12 Thread mchu
Hi all, Maybe someone here knows better. I have several user-mode processes using shared mmap. There can be several reader processes and only one writer. Readers access the shared region frequently, writer seldom. Naturally, multi-reader/single-writer locks works best. I tried this with

Cheap lock for user mode processes release when process exits

2007-04-12 Thread mchu
Hi all, Maybe someone here knows better. I have several user-mode processes using shared mmap. There can be several reader processes and only one writer. Readers access the shared region frequently, writer seldom. Naturally, multi-reader/single-writer locks works best. I tried this with

Re: Cheap lock for user mode processes release when process exits

2007-04-12 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:54:28 + (GMT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Maybe someone here knows better. I have several user-mode processes using shared mmap. There can be several reader processes and only one writer. Readers access the shared region frequently, writer seldom.