Subject: Re: Restartable Atomic Sequences
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/09/2002 20:57:27
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 08:45:57PM -0700, Jonathan Stone wrote:
> My recollection is that RAS does't work for SMP locking: it's
> uniprocessor-only. RAS in a nutshell is :
It can be (and is, by some commercial Unix implementations) used in SMP
systems under some circumstances, but not as a general solution.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>