Are we sure that forcing semaphore overhead to the size of a page is a
good idea? I'd much rather see a sleep/wakeup mechanism akin to wait
queues be exported by the kernel so that userspace can implement a rich
set of locking functions on top of that in whatever shared memory is
being used.
-ben
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