[Asterisk-Dev] ASTOBJ update

Olle E. Johansson oej at edvina.net
Mon Dec 27 15:51:35 MST 2004


Kevin P. Fleming wrote:

> That patch also paves the way for a future upgrade to rwlocks for ASTOBJ 
> entities instead of mutexes; at this point it does not seem that that 
> will be possible soon, but I am still researching it. If it can be done, 
> it will be another big performance improvement, since many modules in 
> Asterisk build lists of things and then primarily only read them, so 
> being able to have multiple readers in parallel will solve a lot of 
> contention problems.
Kevin,
Thank you for good work in the bug tracker!

Just make sure we have portability so we do not get into that black hole 
again :-) It took a while to get the mutexes going on other platforms 
than Linux...

/O



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