Ticket spinlocks

Ticket spinlocks

Posted Feb 7, 2008 1:57 UTC (Thu) by Lennie (guest, #49641)
Parent article: Ticket spinlocks

The x86 maintainers clearly thought that the benefits of eliminating the unseemly scramble for spinlocks exceeded this small cost; it seems unlikely that others will disagree.

Not only do I not disagree, I'd love to run a kernel that has this cost, well actually I want the advantages, not so much the disadvantages.

It sounds like a really nice improvement.

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