On 6/29/13 10:02 PM, Jilles Tjoelker wrote:
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.
either way I think this needs clarification.
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