Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 3 Mar 2002 18:07:21 +1100 | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Lightweight userspace semaphores... |
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On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 11:32:40 -0500 Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 04:39:56PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > _alloca > > mmap > > > > Still fits on the stack 8) > > 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.
Unfortunately, no. You need to know what userspace is using them for so you can check to avoid the "add to waitqueue" race.
AFAICT a mutex is the simplest useful primitive that can be realistically exported.
Hope that helps, Rusty. -- Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell. - 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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