Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Sep 1999 22:28:20 +0200 (CEST) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: possible spinlock optimizations |
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On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>no. [..]
The answer is _yes_. The fact that it's not interesting these days is another issue and I agree with you.
If a spinlock got acquired two times by the same cpu then you'll sti() and the NMI won't trigger the oops with Manfred's idea applyed.
Andrea
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