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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
To: "Van Maren, Kevin" <kevin.vanmaren@unisys.com>
Cc: "'Linus Torvalds '" <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	"'Jeremy Fitzhardinge '" <jeremy@goop.org>,
	"'William Lee Irwin III '" <wli@holomorphy.com>,
	"'linux-ia64@linuxia64.org '" <linux-ia64@linuxia64.org>,
	"'Linux Kernel List '" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"'rusty@rustcorp.com.au '" <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	"'dhowells@redhat.com '" <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	"'mingo@elte.hu '" <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] reader-writer livelock problem
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 17:52:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021108175219.L12011@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FAD1088D4556046AEC48D80B47B478C0101F4EB@usslc-exch-4.slc.unisys.com>; from kevin.vanmaren@unisys.com on Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 11:41:57AM -0600

On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 11:41:57AM -0600, Van Maren, Kevin wrote:
> processor to acquire/release the lock once.  So with 32 processors
> contending for the lock, at 1us per cache-cache transfer (picked

if you have 32 processors contending for the same spinlock, you have
bigger problems.

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-08 17:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-08 17:41 [Linux-ia64] reader-writer livelock problem Van Maren, Kevin
2002-11-08 17:52 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-08 20:24 Van Maren, Kevin
2002-11-08 20:17 Van Maren, Kevin
2002-11-08 20:39 ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-11-08 18:05 Van Maren, Kevin
2002-11-08 19:19 ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-11-08 19:26   ` David Mosberger
     [not found] <3FAD1088D4556046AEC48D80B47B478C0101F4E7@usslc-exch-4.slc.unisys.com>
2002-11-08  3:51 ` 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
2002-11-08 17:57         ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-09  2:48         ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-09  4:36           ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-08 17:34     ` David Howells
2002-11-08 17:54       ` David Howells
2002-11-08 17:55       ` Stephen Hemminger

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