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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] kthread: convert worker lock to raw spinlock
On 2018-10-05 20:10:35 [+0200], Andrea Parri wrote:
>
> Clearly not my topic..., but out of curiosity: What do you mean by
> "well-bounded" and "minimal"? Can you maybe point me to some doc.?

it means that the lock is not held for an arbitrary amount of time like
by processing a list with thousand items. Well-bounded would mean not
process more than one or five (or so) at a time.

> Andrea

Sebastian

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