Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 1/4] spinlock: lockbreak cleanup | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:06:05 +0100 |
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On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 15:02 +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Rename need_lockbreak to spin_needbreak, make it use spin_is_contended to > decouple it from the spinlock implementation, and make it typesafe (rwlocks > do not have any need_lockbreak sites -- why do they even get bloated up > with that break_lock then?).
IIRC Lee has a few patches floating about that do introduce lockbreak stuff for rwlocks.
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