Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 8 Oct 2001 08:49:50 -0600 | From | Victor Yodaiken <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] I still see people using cli() |
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On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 07:59:05PM +0530, BALBIR SINGH wrote: > BTW, that brings me to another issue, once the kernel becomes preemptibel, what > are the locking issues? how are semaphores and spin-locks affected? Has anybody > defined or come up with the rules/document yet?
IF the kernel becomes preemptible it will be so slow, so buggy, and so painful to maintain, that those issues won't matter.
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