> Have you seen any benefit of the rwsem over a simple mutex? I would guess > that you can never even get into the situation where you get concurrent > readers since I haven't found a single down_read() in your code, only > downgrade_write() We implemented a rwsem here because you can get concurrent readers. My understanding is that downgrade_write() puts the rewem into the same state as down_read(). Am I mistaken? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
