The Locking Infrastructure in the FreeBSD kernel

Posted on May 16, 2009 by Gerard

The presentation at AsiaBSDCon 2009 is focused on explaining theoretical approaches and pratical aspect of the locking support in the FreeBSD kernel. The locking KPI as well as underlying mechanisms and interactions with the scheduler will be analized and discussed deeply. Typical locking strategies and some edge cases will also be shown along with a detailed explanation about how to debug locking problems (deadlocks and races primirally).

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