Subject: Re: Please Revert newlock2
To: Bucky Katz <bucky@picovex.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/20/2007 14:25:13
On Feb 18, 2007, at 11:01 AM, Bucky Katz wrote:

> Um, since the theory behind newlock2 was performance improvements,
> shouldn't benchmarks have already been done with the results
> available?

newlock{,2} was, at least when I started it several years ago, all  
about providing decent synchronization APIs to allow us to start  
modernizing our kernel.

-- thorpej