Re: [RFC] New locking primitive for 2.5
Daniel Phillips (phillips@bonn-fries.net)
Thu, 7 Feb 2002 21:57:35 +0100
On February 7, 2002 09:36 pm, yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
> > P.S. If this is going to turn into another priority-inheritance flame, I
> > am stopping here. Let's take it off-list or just drop it, please. I'd
> > much prefer to discuss the current combilock issue which is at hand. ;)
>
> It's the same issue.
Not necessarily, look at Ingo's observation about replacing semaphores with
combi-locks as opposed to replacing spinlocks with combi-locks.
--
Daniel
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