From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 21 5:20: 1 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A46B37B405 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 05:19:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.arcor-ip.de (mail1.arcor-ip.de [145.253.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FC5A43FBF for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 05:19:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Friedemann.Becker@student.uni-tuebingen.de) Received: from gauss.rt.infos.inh (145.253.170.170) by mail1.arcor-ip.de (5.5.034) id 3E1E8763002AF05C; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 14:19:50 +0100 Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 14:19:42 +0100 (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Westeurop=E4ische_Normalzeit?=) From: Friedemann Becker To: Hiten Pandya Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: about kern/47512: LOR? help needed (fwd) In-Reply-To: <20030221131212.GC47980@unixdaemons.com> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: zxmxy33@mailserv02.uni-tuebingen.de MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. just what i needed > 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. i did :) thanks Friedemann To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message