On 04/14/2008 04:49 PM, Timur Tabi wrote:
Jiri Slaby wrote:
On 04/14/2008 04:12 PM, Timur Tabi wrote:
Unfortunately, the author of the patch, York, is out this week, so I'll have to
take care of this. It'd be easier to modify rh_alloc() so that it doesn't
sleep, so that's what I'm going to do.
Anyway, why do you need the spin lock there (and not mutex)?
I don't know. A spinlock just seemed obvious. Why would I prefer a mutex?
Mainly because you can sleep inside locked mutex and because spinlock shouldn't
be used for too many lines of code (busy waiting etc.). I think ldd3 will be
more descriptive than me here :).
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