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SubjectRe: preempt-rt, need old style rwlocks for systemtap
Hi -

On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 09:34:16AM -0500, Clark Williams wrote:
> [...]
> > It has come to my attention that the preempt-rt patch suite
> > deliberately defeats the potential concurrency intended by systemtap's
> > use of rwlocks to permit concurrent readers [...]

> The reason it "defeats" the concurrent behavior is that it's really
> complicated to have concurrent readers with Priority Inheritance, so
> the initial cut of rtmutexes serialized all lock accesses. [...]

Do you believe priority inheritance to be an essential property of
every use of these primitives, regardless of the nature of the
specifical critical sections being protected? Is there no way & need
to opt out of the extra machinery?

- FChE


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