Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:10:42 +0100 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [rfc][patch] queued spinlocks (i386) |
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On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 11:04:18AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> wrote: > > > Implement queued spinlocks for i386. [...] > > isnt this patented by MS? (which might not worry you SuSE/Novell guys, > but it might be a worry for the rest of the world ;-)
I never thought a FIFO queue would be patentable.
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