On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > hm, current->spinlock_depth should work pretty well i believe, no? That
> > one is SMP-safe as well. It doesnt have any global cacheline problems
> > either.
>
> Agreed, but what is the point of it? Now every spinlock has to look up
> current. The nice spinlock code that used to be 2 instructions (or 1
> for the unlock case) suddenly became 5 or more. No, thank you.
> Especially as I don't believe it buys you anything on SMP.
yep, i agree that it's overkill for SMP. 99% of RT applications are UP, so
the global depth-counter should be enough.
Ingo
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