>>> On 19.05.17 at 17:50, wrote:
> @@ -140,6 +140,8 @@ void _spin_lock(spinlock_t *lock)
> while ( tickets.tail != observe_head(&lock->tickets) )
> {
> LOCK_PROFILE_BLOCK;
> +if ( unlikely(cb) )
> +cb(data);
The description says "periodically", which to me i
While waiting for a lock we may want to periodically run some
code. This code may, for example, allow the caller to release
resources held by it that are no longer needed in the critical
section protected by the lock.
Specifically, this feature will be needed by scrubbing code where
the scrubber,
