On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 06:10:07PM +0000, Mindaugas Rasiukevicius wrote: > For very intensive read-mostly locking, there are alternatives, such > as read-optimised locks (with a high cost of write-locking), RCU-like > synchronisation, lockless design or perhaps other tricks. :)
Be careful about lockless algorithms -- most are as heavy on the bus as classic mutex/rw locks. Joerg
