[Lug-nuts] spinlocks

I was checking the kernel output messages of my Xen VM and I saw the following message. "Preventing Guests from Spinning Around" It made me think of the song "Spin me right round like a record player" Then I found the research paper "Preventing Guests from Spinning Around" https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Thomas_Friebel/publication/200014431_L… The work you have to do to keep from spinning, and spinning, and spinning! These are all entertaining thoughts. Brian -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture