On 6/29/13 6:37 AM, Julian Elischer wrote: > On 6/29/13 9:16 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: >> thanks! >> >> >>> -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.
It does not use a spin timeout. I considered adding a separate note to define adaptive spinning generically as it is used by multiple lock types (mutexes, rwlocks, and sx locks). -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ 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"
