From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 14:46:48 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: 3rd version of R/W mmap_sem patch available In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: Mike Galbraith , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > Now the code is beautiful and it might even be bugfree ;) I'm applying this to my tree - I'm not exactly comfortable with this during the 2.4.x timeframe, but at the same time I'm even less comfortable with the current alternative, which is to make the regular semaphores fairer (we tried it once, and the implementation had problems, I'm not going to try that again during 2.4.x). Besides, the fair semaphores would potentially slow things down, while this potentially speeds things up. So.. It looks obvious enough. Linus -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/