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Posted Aug 10, 2009 13:57 UTC (Mon) by tridge (subscriber, #26906)
Parent article: The realtime preemption endgame

What about strangle_lock() - it strangles the CPU for the time it holds
the lock. It should also discourage use :-)

Or grid_lock() ? Too much grid lock and nobody gets to move.

Finally, flint_lock(), because it's very primitive :-)

Cheers, Tridge

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