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Date:      Fri, 23 Jul 2004 20:40:02 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: crfree/crhold mutex
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040723203928.16434A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <4101A5F1.50407@elischer.org>

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On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Julian Elischer wrote:

> It's held for such small times.. shouldn't it be a spinlock? 

With the recent change to use adaptive mutexes by default, it should
effectively be a spin mutex on SMP.

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research



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