Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 16 Apr 2001 08:39:12 -0600 | From | yodaiken@fsmlabs ... | Subject | Re: rw_semaphores |
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On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 08:47:34AM +0100, David Howells wrote: > > Since you're willing to use CMPXCHG in your suggested implementation, would it > make it make life easier if you were willing to use XADD too? > > Plus, are you really willing to limit the number of readers or writers to be > 32767? If so, I think I can suggest a way that limits it to ~65535 apiece > instead...
I'm trying to imagine a case where 32,000 sharing a semaphore was anything but a major failure and I can't. To me: the result of an attempt by the 32,768th locker should be a kernel panic. Is there a reasonable scenario where this is wrong?
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