On 02/18/2013 10:01 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Mon, 2013-02-18 at 21:51 +0530, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: >> Hi Michel, > >> Yes.. I don't think we can avoid that. Moreover, since we _want_ unfair >> reader/writer semantics to allow flexible locking rules and guarantee >> deadlock-safety, having a recursive reader side is not even an issue, IMHO. > > Recursive unfair reader lock may guarantee deadlock-safety, but > remember, it adds a higher probability of live-locking the write_lock. > Which is another argument to keep this separate to cpu hotplug only. > True. Regards, Srivatsa S. Bhat -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
