[Bug translator/10741] Merge tandem locks

[jistone at redhat dot com]

------- Additional Comments From jistone at redhat dot com  2009-11-20 21:25 -------
(In reply to comment #1)
> archiving irc yak on topic:
> 
> fche anyway, I was thinking that another locking-related optimization could be
> done by escalating read-to-write locks within probe handlers

One concern is that we could lose atomicity this way.  If two probes share a
read lock, and one wants to upgrade to write, it could timeout in waiting for
the other to release.  Normally we can determine such skips on probe entry, so
the handler is all or nothing.

Or can we just allow the upgrade to block forever, since the shared probes are
bounded by MAXACTION?

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