On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 04:09, Dipankar Sarma wrote:
> That brings me to the point - with the fget-speedup patch, we should
> probably change ->file_lock back to an rwlock again. We now take this
> lock only when fd table is shared and under such situation the rwlock
> should help. Andrew, it that ok ?
rwlocks believe it or not tend not to be superior over spinlocks,
they actually promote cache line thrashing in the case they
are actually being effective (>1 parallel reader)
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