Re: sleep/wakeup sequence using tsleep_interlock

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aggelos Economopoulos wrote:
>  *	(enter critical section)
>  *	(acquire upper level lock)
>  *	tsleep_interlock(blah)
>  *	(release upper level lock)
>  *	tsleep(blah, ...)
>  *	(exit critical section)
> It is not obvious to me why the first two operations can't be reversed (i.e. 
> first acquire lock, then enter critical section). Can they?

Yes, they can :)

cheers
 simon

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