Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote: > Look at it from the POV of major architectures: there's no way the new > mutex code will be faster than down() and up() I'm thinking of making the default implementation of mutexes a straight wrapper around down() and up(). That way it'll be exactly the same as counting semaphores, just with extra constraints when the debugging is enabled _and_ effectively extra inline documentation. But! for archs where it does matter (and we have several - you might not care, but others do), it can be overridden with something faster. David - 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/
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