Control groups, part 6: A look under the hood
Control groups, part 6: A look under the hood
Posted Aug 10, 2014 20:19 UTC (Sun) by longman (subscriber, #82974)Parent article: Control groups, part 6: A look under the hood
For x86, the 3.16 kernel uses a different implementation of read/write lock (qrwlock) that is fair. Therefore, writer starvation due to a continuous stream of readers should not happen anymore.