Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.9-rc4-mm1-U8

[Scott Wood]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 06:15:00PM -0400, john cooper wrote:
> Yes, but my concern was having to backoff in out-of-sequence
> spinlock acquisition paths. 

Out-of-sequence acquisition is a bug, unless the caller uses trylocks
and handles backoff itself.

-Scott
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