On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Prasad Joshi<prasadjoshi124@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am working on Porting of a windows device driver to Linux. Windows has a > notion of Queued Spinlock. I could not understand how it is different than > normal spinlock, the document says it is faster than a normal spinlock. If this is the only differece then you can try various spin_lock APIs, depending upon your situation in the code. At most, you will receive slight performance hit. > > If any one is having more information on Queued Spinlock, please share. Don't know as far as I am concerned. > > Is there any equivalent Spinlock in Linux to Queued Spinlock? No such API is there, name-wise, If functioning of Queued Spinlock is know, then someone can explain you about equivalent call (may be sequence of different APIs call to acheive the same effect) in linux. > > Thanks and Regards, > Prasad > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
