๐ Vetter: Locking engineering hierarchy
๐ก Newskategorie: Linux Tipps
๐ Quelle: lwn.net
Daniel Vetter continues his series on locking in the kernel.
This part goes through a pile of locking pattern and designs, from most favourable and easiest to adjust and hence resulting in a long term maintainable code base, to the least favourable since hardest to ensure it works correctly and stays that way while the code evolves. For convenience even color coded, with the dangerous levels getting progressively more crispy red indicating how close to the burning fire you are! Think of it as Danteโs Inferno, but for locking....