Ekstrand: Plumbing explicit synchronization through the Linux ecosystem

Posted Mar 12, 2020 7:01 UTC (Thu) by scientes (guest, #83068)
Parent article: Ekstrand: Plumbing explicit synchronization through the Linux ecosystem

It is a nice demonstration of the bike shed principal that the most interesting things posted in this week's LWN has zero comments, while the article about a silly new syscall has many.

Ekstrand: Plumbing explicit synchronization through the Linux ecosystem

Posted Mar 12, 2020 8:18 UTC (Thu) by bovinespirit (subscriber, #88348) [Link] (1 responses)

This is a weighty article crossing many systems and projects and presenting a proposal that could have far reaching consequences. I expect the LWN community is carefully considering the proposal and maybe conducting it's own researches before reaching it's conclusions and contributing carefully considered comments, if appropriate.

That's how internet forums work, isn't it?

Ekstrand: Plumbing explicit synchronization through the Linux ecosystem

Posted Mar 12, 2020 20:41 UTC (Thu) by jafd (subscriber, #129642) [Link]

You wish they did.

Ekstrand: Plumbing explicit synchronization through the Linux ecosystem

Posted Mar 13, 2020 9:41 UTC (Fri) by kazer (subscriber, #134462) [Link]

It seems like a good proposal. There's some technical debt (backlog of ancient tech in need of updating) and this might go some way in solving them.