From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Bill Huey (hui) <bhuey@lnxw.com>
Cc: davidsen@tmr.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
bhuey@lnxw.com
Subject: Re: [patch] remove the BKL (Big Kernel Lock), this time for real
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 15:40:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040916154011.3f0dbd54.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040916222903.GA4089@nietzsche.lynx.com>
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 15:29:03 -0700
Bill Huey (hui) <bhuey@lnxw.com> wrote:
> FreeBSD-current uses adaptive mutexes. However they spin on that mutex
> only if the thread owning it is running across another CPU at that time,
> otherwise it sleeps, maybe priority inherited depending on the
> circumstance.
This is how Solaris MUTEX objects work too.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-16 22:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2004-09-15 15:46 ` [patch] remove the BKL (Big Kernel Lock), this time for real Andi Kleen
2004-09-15 15:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-15 20:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-16 1:17 ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-16 14:28 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-09-16 22:29 ` Bill Huey
2004-09-16 22:40 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-09-16 22:51 ` Bill Huey
2004-09-16 22:54 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-16 23:01 ` Bill Huey
2004-09-16 23:33 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-17 6:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-17 7:21 ` Tony Lee
2004-09-18 5:44 Manfred Spraul
2004-09-18 13:09 ` Ingo Molnar
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-15 15:18 Ingo Molnar
2004-09-15 15:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-09-15 15:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-15 17:04 ` Ricky Beam
2004-09-15 19:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-15 18:28 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-09-15 21:25 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-17 10:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-17 12:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-17 20:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-18 8:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-18 23:36 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-17 13:26 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-17 13:47 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-17 13:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-17 14:18 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-17 15:16 ` Linus Torvalds
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