Re: spinaphore conceptual draft ... >>I suspect any attempt to use time stamps in locks is a bad ... >>CPU will always snoop cache accesses for all cache lines ... > The idea behind these locks is for bigger systems for ... and a lock such as this should be able to send several CPUs to ... (Linux-Kernel)
Re: fcntl(F GETLEASE) semantics?? ... > can't place a read lease, but can place a write lease! ... that screws with the ability to cache data.... and nobody else holds locks on the file. ... (Linux-Kernel)
Re: FUSE merging? ... > plays nicely with the page cache.... on the underlying file server.... > talking about a virtual filesystem where all calls should be passed ... We have exclusive open semantics but not locks in the Posix ... (Linux-Kernel)
Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/7] Resource counters ... If I am not mistaken, you shouldn't loop in normal cases, which means ... If you care about optimization cache lines ... With spin locks you have to be a little more careful to put them ... With atomic ops you get that automatically. ... (Linux-Kernel)