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Subject: Re: spinaphore conceptual draft (was discussion of RT patch)
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Looks like a description of buzz locks used by various user space
libraries - spin briefly then assume the other cause of contention is
slow (or in user space that we pre-empted it) and be polite.

Alan