Re: rwlocks, correctness over speed.

* Max Laier <max@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [071122 07:46] wrote:
On Wednesday 21 November 2007, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
In summary, I am proposing (temporarily) making read-recursion
on rwlocks not supported in order to avoid livelock due to writer
starvation.


rwlocks are already used in places that do recursive reads. The one place


Max, I think what will happen is that we will mark further uses
or read locks as recursive as "not supported", perhaps witness
can temporarily grow a flag to ignore recursive read ops until
the existing infrastructure is fixed.

I will not get into alternatives for pfil, as it seems you've mostly
worked it out.

-Alfred
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