From: "Robin Doer" <robin@robind.de>
To: newbie <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Mutual Exclusion in Kernel
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 10:43:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041006.Yzh.28379000@192.168.0.6> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041006055017.42480.qmail@web52903.mail.yahoo.com>
Good morning!
Ankit Jain (ankitjain1580@yahoo.com) schrieb:
>
> hi
>
> what is spin lock?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_lock
aka "busy waiting". A thread is polling <something> until <something> says
"ok" and the thread continues working.
>
> thanks
>
> ankit
Have fun,
Robin
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[not found] <577528CFDFEFA643B3324B88812B57FE2D9B67@inhyms21.ca.com>
2004-10-06 5:50 ` Mutual Exclusion in Kernel Ankit Jain
2004-10-06 8:43 ` Robin Doer [this message]
2004-10-07 5:18 ` kernel kernel
[not found] <20041006085523.35414.qmail@web52903.mail.yahoo.com>
2004-10-06 14:04 ` Robin Doer
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