* Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OK, I'm declaring defeat here. I've been fighting race conditions all
> day, and it's now 1 in the morning where I live. It looks like this
> implementation has no other choice but to have the waking up "pending
> owner" take the wait_list lock once again. How heavy of a overhead is
> that really?
as i mentioned it before, taking a lock is not a big issue at all. Since
you have to touch the lock data structure anyway (and all of it fits
into a single cacheline), it doesnt really matter whether it's atomic
flag setting/clearing, or raw spinlock based.
later on, once things are stable and well-understood, we can still
attempt to micro-optimize it.
Ingo
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