Re: [Linux-ia64] reader-writer livelock problem

From: Matthew Wilcox (willy@debian.org)
Date: Fri Nov 08 2002 - 12:52:19 EST


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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