Re: adding to wait queue

B. James Phillippe (bryan@terran.org)
Mon, 7 Jun 1999 15:04:27 -0700 (PDT)


On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Raj, Ashok wrote:

> Have a silly question.
>
> when i add to wait_queue() should i need a spinlock around it in a MP
> system? or

The source for <linux/sched.h> defines __add_wait_queue and add_wait_queue;
the former does no locking and the latter does an IRQ writelock. Just use
the latter if you need locking.

-bp

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