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Re: 2.2.16 Alpha: "Fix SMP rescheduling with lock held"

Subject: Re: 2.2.16 Alpha: "Fix SMP rescheduling with lock held"
From: W Bauske (wsb@paralleldata.com)
Date: Wed Jun 14 11:46:40 2000

Greg Lindahl wrote:
>
> In order to avoid deadlocks with general communication patterns, most
> libraries do more sophisticated things.
>

Yeah. It's called select(). I prefer the code deadlocks if one
doesn't make requests in the correct order. That "buffering"
can cost many MB of memory for the kinds of things I do.

Wes 

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