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Subject: Re: crfree/crhold mutex
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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