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Re: newbie query! spinlocks mlqueue
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, jeane wrote:
Thanks for the link I went through it, I'm new to ecos my assumption
was while using a spin-lock
[...]
I went through the spinlock's implementation on uni-processor I didn't
see any while loop /test_and_set instruction in Cyg_SpinLock::lock()
which will amount to the CPU spinning. Neither was there an
implementation which will disable scheduling. So how does the uni
-processor spin-lock guarantee "locking" across threads when
pre-emptible scheduling is enabled.
From the documentation: "Therefore spinlocks are only appropriate for SMP
systems where the current owner of a spinlock can continue running on a
different processor."
-Hans
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