* Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On an SMP machine, there may even be a chance of a lower priority
> process that gets it. That would be possible if the low priority
> process on the other CPU tries to grab the lock just after it was
> released but before the just woken up high priorty processes get
> scheduled. So there's a window where the lock is open, and the lower
> priority process snagged it just before the others got in.
that's always a possibility, on UP too: if a lower priority task manages
to acquire a lock 'just before' a highprio thread got interested in it
there's no way to undo that.
but for the other reasons the explicit approach looks better.
Ingo
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