On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 09:37:42PM +0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > On 6/29/13 9:16 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: > >> -If the owner is not currently actually running then the spin step > >> is skipped. > >> +then a thread attempting to acquire the mutex will spin rather > >> than yielding > >> +the processor. > Am I wrong in thinking that it will only spin for a short while, > eventually yielding?
> The original text said this but the new text implies it will spin > forever. The code actually spins until the state of the lock changes or the owning thread is no longer running. -- Jilles Tjoelker _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
