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Diffstat (limited to 'include/odp/api/spinlock.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/odp/api/spinlock.h | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/odp/api/spinlock.h b/include/odp/api/spinlock.h index 9a5a9290a..154d0258a 100644 --- a/include/odp/api/spinlock.h +++ b/include/odp/api/spinlock.h @@ -18,9 +18,14 @@ extern "C" { #endif -/** @addtogroup odp_synchronizers - * Operations on spin locks. - * @{ +/** + * @addtogroup odp_locks + * @details + * <b> Spin lock (odp_spinlock_t) </b> + * + * Spinlock simply re-tries to acquire the lock as long as takes to succeed. + * Spinlock is not fair since some threads may succeed more often than others. + * @{ */ /** |