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Date:      30 Oct 1997 06:16:07 -0000
From:      proff@iq.org
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   kernel spinlocks, splbio(), MUTEX etc
Message-ID:  <19971030061607.18190.qmail@iq.org>

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I have a possible access contention between two peices of code,
one hanging off a timeout() interrupt and the other called via
the VFS sub-system. I don't want to lock the object they are 
accessing by using splbio() as both bits of code use around
32k instructions.

ideas?

-J
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