Re: Locking scheme to block less

[viro]

On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 08:38:33PM -0400, John Richard Moser wrote:
> Currently, the kernel uses only spin_locks, which are similar to mutex 
> locks;

Does it, really?

> If the kernel provided a read-write locking semaphore,

or if you would care to RTFS and find that it does...
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