Re: Why Semaphore Hardware-Dependent?

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[sorry, I missed some emails when I was out of action a while back. Catching up...]

Andi Kleen wrote:
and chuck out the "crappy" rwsem fallback implementation


What is crappy with it?

I just mean that it is supposedly the second class implementation. Just
seems wrong when powerpc has implemented the "better" version in a completely
generic way (patch to follow).

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