Re: Fileassoc locking

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 06:10:07PM +0000, Mindaugas Rasiukevicius wrote:
> For very intensive read-mostly locking, there are alternatives, such
> as read-optimised locks (with a high cost of write-locking), RCU-like
> synchronisation, lockless design or perhaps other tricks.  :)

Be careful about lockless algorithms -- most are as heavy on the bus as
classic mutex/rw locks.

Joerg