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I Would Hate User Space Locking if It Werent That Sexy...

Source: Intel
Date: January 2008
Type: White Paper
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Overview: Linux has seen a lot of new features and developments in the last years in order to accommodate better scalability, interactivity, response time and POSIX compliance. With these changes, Telecom developers began to get serious about using Linux and started porting their systems to it. By doing that they brought new usage models and needs to the community; and among those needs was support for threads, mutual exclusion, priority inversion protection for mission critical systems on both timesharing and soft real-time environments. This paper describes the experiences trying to meet this need, the current state and where is one headed.


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