On Wed, 14 May 2003, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> I believe this effort is more targetted at teeny little embedded gadgets -
> devices which are very remote from workstations, desktops and servers.
And even there futexes are (a) faster and (b) smaller than SYSVIPC. So
assuming you ever want threading in an embedded world (not unlikely at
all, since things like DVD playback etc are mostly done with threads), you
want futexes.
> Presumably the people who are programming such gadgets will know if they
> need futexes or not.
Yes. We can make tit a CONFIG option, and then force it to always be "y"
in the .config file. And then the people who really know and really care
can turn the "y" to a "n".
Linus
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