Re: light weight user level semaphores

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> Ehh... Non-lazy variant is just read() and write() as down_failed() and
> up_wakeup() Lazy... How about

Looks good to me. Anybody want to try this out and test some benchmarks?

There may be problems with large numbers of semaphores, but hopefully that
won't be an issue. And the ability to select/poll on these things might
come in handy for various implementation issues (ie locks with timeouts
etc).

                Linus

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