On Feb 18, 2007, at 11:01 AM, Bucky Katz wrote:

> Um, since the theory behind newlock2 was performance improvements,
> shouldn't benchmarks have already been done with the results
> available?

newlock{,2} was, at least when I started it several years ago, all  
about providing decent synchronization APIs to allow us to start  
modernizing our kernel.

-- thorpej