On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Please use a mutex, not a semaphore. semaphores should only be used > when you need a counting sempahore. Seems that mutexes are mainly useful for 2 processor systems since they do not allow concurrent read sections. We want multiple processors able to reclaim pages within the same vma or file concurrently. This means processors need to be able to concurrently walk potentially long lists of vmas. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
