On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > That is a really interesting alternative to traditional locking. Could > we perhaps document it in Documentation/rbtree.txt? Well, I'd actually suggest avoiding it unless you feel that you _really_ need it. So I wouldn't want to really suggest it as a generic locking model - you had better have looked at pretty much all other alternatives first. And if that seqlock starts failing a lot under load, it ends up being _more_ expensive than just taking the lock in the first place. Linus -- 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