spinlock random exponential backoff

Sepherosa Ziehau sepherosa at gmail.com
Sat May 3 17:39:37 PDT 2008


Hi,

I have problem under specific test case, if I use spinlock on ifq (got
many "indefinite wait" logging).  With following patch things improve
greatly, there is almost no "indefinite wait"!.  Please review it:
http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~sephe/kern_spinlock.c.diff1

Best Regards,
sephe

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