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Interview: Robert Love (KernelTrap)

KernelTrap interviews Robert Love. "Anyhow, I am interested in the various primitives we implement (spinlocks and semaphores) and how they are used. We have a really nice lightweight spinlock implementation. At the kernel summit, I discussed implementing a new lightweight mutex lock - basically a binary semaphore with none of the "special features" that our semaphores have and perhaps some spin-then-sleep behavior."
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