[musl] Simple question regarding read-write locks precedence

[Koen Vandeputte <koen.vandeputte@ncentric.com>]

Hi All,

I've written a user app which make use of reader-writer locks.

Topology is pretty simple:

- 1 writer

- 4 readers


Writes only occur once in a while.

Readers are heavy users of the lock.


The default behavior in musl is Reader precedence.

In my usecase, it means that a writer never aquires the lock causing 
writer starvation.

Debugging nicely shows that readers also "jump over" the waiting writer 
as there is always at least 1 reader present in the critical section at 
any time.

Going through the source code shows that there is no support for 
specifying lock attributes which give writers precedence over readers.


Is there an update scheduled to add the required attribute types which 
allow writer precedence to avoid starvation?


Thanks,

Koen