Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755468Ab0KMWyG (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Nov 2010 17:54:06 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:52000 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754348Ab0KMWyE convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Nov 2010 17:54:04 -0500 Subject: Re: Kernel rwlock design, Multicore and IGMP From: Peter Zijlstra To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Am=E9rico?= Wang Cc: Eric Dumazet , Cypher Wu , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev In-Reply-To: <20101112081945.GA5949@cr0.nay.redhat.com> References: <1289489007.17691.1310.camel@edumazet-laptop> <20101112071323.GB5660@cr0.nay.redhat.com> <1289546874.17691.1774.camel@edumazet-laptop> <20101112081945.GA5949@cr0.nay.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 23:54:20 +0100 Message-ID: <1289688860.2109.401.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 457 Lines: 11 On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 16:19 +0800, Américo Wang wrote: > > Just for record, both Tile and X86 implement rwlock with a write-bias, > this somewhat reduces the write-starvation problem. x86 does no such thing. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/