Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Sep 1999 06:51:54 -0700 (PDT) | From | Robert Dinse <> | Subject | Re: spin_lock and linux philosophy question... |
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On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Momchil Velikov wrote: > > Spin locks are for cases when it is expected the lock to be held for > very short intervals, thus saving the sleep/wakeup overhead. For other > cases there are sleep locks (whatever they are called in each OS), where > indeed the CPU is sent to do something else. > > Regards, > -velco
Thank you for the short explanation, and thank you David for the reference as I really do want to understand these things.
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