David>    From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
David>    Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 11:29:53 +0100 (CET)
   
David>    using read-write locks does not solve the scalability problem: the problem
David>    is the bouncing of the spinlock cacheline from CPU to CPU.
David> I so much wish more people understood this :(
Amen. From now on I'll have it on an yellow sticker on my display ;)
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