On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 02:10:08PM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote: > Really? I don't actually see that in the code, have I missed it? Checking the spinlock version, when any writer is waiting, the sem->wait_list won't empty and down_read will wait too. The wakeup is FIFO with __rwsem_do_wake is doing a wake-one if first one in queue is a down_write. So it looks ok to me. asm version should have an equivalent logic. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
