Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Sep 2004 15:40:11 -0700 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: [patch] remove the BKL (Big Kernel Lock), this time for real |
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On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 15:29:03 -0700 Bill Huey (hui) <bhuey@lnxw.com> wrote:
> FreeBSD-current uses adaptive mutexes. However they spin on that mutex > only if the thread owning it is running across another CPU at that time, > otherwise it sleeps, maybe priority inherited depending on the > circumstance.
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