Because of writer lock stealing, it is possible that a constant
stream of incoming writers will cause a waiting writer or reader to
wait indefinitely leading to lock starvation.
The mutex code has a lock handoff mechanism to prevent lock starvation.
This patch implements a similar lock handoff
Because of writer lock stealing, it is possible that a constant
stream of incoming writers will cause a waiting writer or reader to
wait indefinitely leading to lock starvation.
The mutex code has a lock handoff mechanism to prevent lock starvation.
This patch implements a similar lock handoff
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