:What John's patch does is spin while the lock owner is running on another cpu.
:Spinning while there are no other processes on the run queues as well makes sense
:but you'll also be doing a lot of acquires and releases of sched_lock.
:
:The only thing that jumped out at me looking at the patch is that critnest cannot
:be 0 here because the sched_lock is held; holding a spin lock implies being in a
:critical section. I need to think about this more and would like you to wait until
:John has a chance to look at it as well.
:
:Jake
Sure thing. Ah, critnest... you are right. I should be checking for
critnest > 1.
-Matt
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