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Lock elision in the GNU C library

Lock elision in the GNU C library

Posted Jan 31, 2013 23:11 UTC (Thu) by luto (subscriber, #39314)
In reply to: Lock elision in the GNU C library by hpa
Parent article: Lock elision in the GNU C library

Except that, if I remember correctly, the HLE interface maintains the illusion locally that you've locked the lock, which would allow recursion detection to work without adding a second cache line to the lock.


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