> But that brings up a larger question of why there are spin locks at all?
>If a CPU can't be doing one thing because a particular resource is unavailable
>being used by another CPU, why isn't it then sent off to do something else?
Not always is possible to do that without losing performances and
without increasing the complexity of the code.
When it's possible just use spin_trylock.
Andrea
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