Re: How does the OS implement a spin lock?

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From: Stephan Wolf (stewo68_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/04/04

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Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 21:33:56 +0100

See e.g.

"A Primer on Kernel-Mode SMP Synchronization"
http://www.osr.com/ntinsider/1999/smp_synch/smp_synch.htm

Stephan

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On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 10:18:42 -0800, "Prabhu"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>Some one asked me this question on how does the operating 
>system implement a spin lock? How does the 
>synchronization to the spin lock object itself work? Can 
>some one explain?
>
>Thanks,
>-Prabhu

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