Hi Ohad, From: ext Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [PATCH 1/4] omap: mailbox cleanup: convert rwlocks to spinlock Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:56:19 +0200 > rwlocks are slower and have potential starvation issues so spinlocks are > generally preferred Would it be possible to explain the above a bit more? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html