Re: [PATCH 3/7] barrier: a scalable synchonisation barrier

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 04:24:35PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > This barrier thing is constructed so that it will not write in the 
> > > sync() condition (the hot path) when there are no active lock 
> > > sections; thus avoiding cacheline bouncing. -- I'm just not sure how 
> > > this will work out in relation to PI. We might track those in the 
> > > barrier scope and boost those by the max prio of the blockers.
> > 
> > Is this really needed?  We seem to grow new funky locking algorithms 
> > exponentially, while people already have a hard time understanding the 
> > existing ones.
> 
> yes, it's needed.

Thanks for the wonderful and indepth explanation </sarcasm>
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