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On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Davide Libenzi wrote:

[ cc: list trimmage ]

> Or, is the kernel code the slow path or you enter it by default ?

The kernel part is the slow path -- we only enter it
when we have contention and want to sleep.

Matthew.

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