On Friday 13 April 2007 12:04:16 Nick Piggin wrote: > OK, this patch is against 2.6.21-rc6 + Mathieu's atomic_long patches. > > Last time this came up I was asked to get some numbers, so here are > some in the changelog, captured with a simple kernel module tester. > I got motivated again because of the MySQL/glibc/mmap_sem issue. > > This patch converts all architectures to a generic rwsem implementation, > which will compile down to the same code for i386, or powerpc, for > example, and will allow some (eg. x86-64) to move away from spinlock > based rwsems. > > Comments?
Fine for me from the x86-64 side. Some more validation with a test suite would be good though. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
