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Date:      Thu, 06 Jan 2005 18:35:39 +0200
From:      Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To:        David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-threads@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: higher speed mutexes
Message-ID:  <41DD68DB.6040405@he.iki.fi>
In-Reply-To: <41DD04FE.7070409@freebsd.org>
References:  <41DCEA91.6040402@he.iki.fi> <41DCFD2F.2040207@freebsd.org> <41DD01CE.70004@he.iki.fi> <41DD04FE.7070409@freebsd.org>

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David Xu wrote:

>
>
> because we use simple mutex to protect rwlock, if simple mutex is
> improved, rwlock should be improved by this side effect.
>
But rwlock will be significantly more expensive than a simple mutex when 
uncontested, right?

> you can browse my perforce repository, it requires -CURRENT and when
> I put it to public, it will need newest -CURRENT kernel. ;-)

Is this on the "merge path" to 5.4 or only 6.0?

Pete



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