Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: About a change to the implementation of spin lock in 2.6.12 kernel. | From | Brandon Niemczyk <> | Date | Thu, 14 Jul 2005 12:26:38 -0400 |
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On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 09:21 -0700, multisyncfe991@hotmail.com wrote: > Hi Willy, > > I think at least I can remove the LOCK instruction when the lock is already > held by someone else and enter the spinning wait directly, right? If the lock is already held by someone else, the cpu is just going to burn cycles until it's not. So why do you care?
-- Brandon Niemczyk
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