Re: Spinlocks, yet again: analysis and proposed patches

Marko Kreen <marko@l-t.ee> writes:

> > (I speculate that it's set up to only yield the processor to other
> > processes already affiliated to that processor.  In any case, it
> > is definitely capable of getting through 10000 yields without
> > running the guy who's holding the spinlock.)

Maybe it should try sched_yield once and then use select after that?

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greg