Re: [CapROS-devel] Fast software-only mutex algorithm

[Jonathan S. S. <sh...@er...>]

On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 20:36 -0400, Matt wrote:
> In 2003, a (grad?) student named Sankarapandian Vijayaraghavan wrote a
> paper on the fast + fair + software-only mutual exclusion algorithm he
> devised... Would any of this mess be useful in CapROS?

It seems unlikely. All of the multiprocessors that CapROS is ever likely
to run on provide hardware instructions to support efficient locking
primitives.