[Jiri Slaby - Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 05:27:00PM +0100] > On 01/14/2008 05:07 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: >> Yes, process would be stopped, and not *just* stopped but could spend >> all his cpu time-slice in attempt to get spinlock (espec if set time is >> much longer than read), but if we use mutex here the process could just >> sleep instead of trying to get spinlock granted. Am I wrong? Or this is >> not worth to do it? > > I would say no. It'll spin only for nanoseconds there. >
Thanks a lot Jiri, I'll resend improved patch. - Cyrill - -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/