Re: çå: [PATCH 0/3] arm64: queued spinlocks and rw-locks

From: Will Deacon
Date: Fri May 05 2017 - 08:26:42 EST


On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 01:53:03PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 11:28:09PM +0300, Yury Norov wrote:
> > I don't think
> > it's a real use case to have ticket spinlocks and queued rwlocks
>
> There's nothing wrong with that combination. In fact, we merged qrwlock
> much earlier than qspinlock.

... and that's almost certainly the direction we'll go on arm64 too, not
least because the former are a lot easier to grok.

Will