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From: David Howells <dhowells@cambridge.redhat.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
	"Van Maren, Kevin" <kevin.vanmaren@unisys.com>,
	linux-ia64@linuxia64.org,
	Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	rusty@rustcorp.com.au, dhowells@redhat.com, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] reader-writer livelock problem
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 17:43:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18932.1036777415@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>  of "08 Nov 2002 09:38:25 PST." <1036777105.13021.13.camel@ixodes.goop.org>


> Do you mean have a separate lock type, or have two different read_lock
> operations on the current type?

You'd probably be better off with separate types... that way you can avoid
problems with conditionals and also with different tracking fields being
required by each grade of lock.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-08 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <3FAD1088D4556046AEC48D80B47B478C0101F4E7@usslc-exch-4.slc.unisys.com>
2002-11-08  3:51 ` [Linux-ia64] reader-writer livelock problem William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-08 17:13   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2002-11-08 17:25     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-08 17:28       ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-08 17:38       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2002-11-08 17:43         ` David Howells [this message]
2002-11-08 17:57         ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-09  2:48         ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-09  4:36           ` William Lee Irwin III
     [not found]           ` <3DCFDAE9.6D359448@email.mot.com>
2002-11-11 19:22             ` David Mosberger
2002-11-12  1:39               ` your mail Rik van Riel
2002-11-08 17:34     ` [Linux-ia64] reader-writer livelock problem David Howells
2002-11-08 17:54       ` David Howells
2002-11-08 17:55       ` Stephen Hemminger
2002-11-08 17:41 Van Maren, Kevin
2002-11-08 17:52 ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-11-08 18:05 Van Maren, Kevin
2002-11-08 19:19 ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-11-08 19:26   ` David Mosberger
2002-11-08 20:17 Van Maren, Kevin
2002-11-08 20:39 ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-11-08 20:24 Van Maren, Kevin

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