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Date:      Fri, 21 Feb 2003 08:12:12 -0500
From:      Hiten Pandya <hiten@unixdaemons.com>
To:        Friedemann Becker <Friedemann.Becker@student.uni-tuebingen.de>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: about kern/47512: LOR? help needed (fwd)
Message-ID:  <20030221131212.GC47980@unixdaemons.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.44.0302211220400.1116-100000@GAUSS>
References:  <Pine.WNT.4.44.0302211220400.1116-100000@GAUSS>

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Friedemann Becker (Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 12:22:14PM +0100) wrote:
> I try to get the clue about this mutex lock thing, but I think, I just
> don't understand right what the different types of locks are used for.

John Baldwin has written a fine paper on locking in the FreeBSD kernel.
It explains everything clearly:

	http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon02/baldwin.html

Also checkout the mutex(9) manual page.

-- 
Hiten Pandya (hiten@unixdaemons.com, hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org)
http://www.unixdaemons.com/~hiten/

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