[PATCH v2] rwlock: prevent readers from starving writers

[David Marchand]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 10:28 PM Stephen Hemminger
<stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote:
>
> Modify reader/writer lock to avoid starvation of writer.  The previous
> implementation would cause a writer to get starved if readers kept
> acquiring the lock.  The new version uses an additional bit to indicate
> that a writer is waiting and which keeps readers from starving the
> writer.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> Acked-by: Morten Brørup <mb at smartsharesystems.com>

Applied, thanks.


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David Marchand