Please Rewrite Glibc RWlock or Revert to Drepper's Good Old Implementation.

Posted Aug 22, 2025 3:02 UTC (Fri) by PengZheng (subscriber, #108006)
Parent article: Bringing restartable sequences out of the niche

> Mathieu Desnoyers (the creator of this feature) has been advocating for increased use of it within glibc to improve scalability for some time.

I would once again propose the buggy rwlock([1]), which is a complicated mess, as a rewrite candidate.