Paul E. McKenney wrtoe:
> Can the locusts reasonably take a return value from the acquisition
> primitive and feed it to the release primitive?
Yes - the locusts typically do:
mutex_lock(&callback_mutex);
... a line or two to read or write cpusets ...
mutex_unlock(&callback_mutex);
The lock and unlock are just a few lines apart. I could easily pass
a value from the lock (acquisition) to the unlock (release).
Why do you ask?
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