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[Matthew Seaman]

On 2016/06/04 20:27, Bulat Bulat via freebsd-questions wrote:
> However, the meaning of ts_free member in turnstile structure for me is unclear.
> My understanding: when thread discovers than lock's turnstile is already present 
> at turnstile chain it adds its own turnstile to lock's turnstile's ts_free
> and after it wokes up it regrabs turnstile from the same
> ts_free list of lock's turnstile. But why does it so, if it already has its own turnstile, what the 
> meaning of putting of turnstile to free list only for regrabbing it later.

This is definitely a question for freebsd-hackers at ...

	Cheers,

	Matthew


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