alt Hacker NewsTell a kernel developer that spin locks aren’t for production code.
Bring a wind turbine with you because the laughing will be quite intense…
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ChickeNES • today at 3:20 AM
Heh, I lost it myself when reading it, so you're not wrong.
Tell a kernel developer that spin locks aren’t for production code.
Bring a wind turbine with you because the laughing will be quite intense…
Heh, I lost it myself when reading it, so you're not wrong.
Totally fair. I haven’t done much kernel stuff (outside of very basic toy stuff for QEMU).
At the level I work (which is generally server/distributed stuff), I have always used mutexes that are built into the platform.
Or more realistically, if I am the one writing the code, I just avoid mutexes and make my code ridiculously convoluted to do so.