Re: why are we reduce spin-lock and replace it with lock-free?

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On Thu, 10 May 2007 22:23:32 +0800
"liang yuanen" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Three are many many spin-lock in the kernel code, and in multi-core
> conditions, it push down the kernel performance.why are we reduce
> spin-lock and replace it with lock-free?

If you can find algorithms which are lock free, faster than taking the
lock and have bounded resource consumption then you can test them with
the kernel and send patches. 

Alan
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