Re: [PATCH -v5][RFC]: mutex: implement adaptive spinning

Steven Rostedt
2009-01-07T23:47:28Z

On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> True. I need to keep looking at the code that is posted. In -rt, we force
> the fast path into the slowpath as soon as another task fails to get the
> lock. Without that, as you pointed out, the code can be racy.

I mean we force the fast unlock path into the slow path as soon as another
task fails to get the lock.

-- Steve