Re: Deadlock on the mm->mmap_sem
Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Wed, 19 Sep 2001 20:47:20 +0200
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 07:26:33PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> > if we go generic then I strongly recommend my version of the generic
> > semaphores is _much_ faster (and cleaner) than this one
>
> Not so:-) Your patch, Andrea, grabs the spinlock far more than is necessary.
then why your microbenchmarks says my version is much faster?
Andrea
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