What about separating locks and data?

Posted Jan 5, 2013 23:50 UTC (Sat) by giraffedata (guest, #1954)
In reply to: What about separating locks and data? by dlang
Parent article: Improving ticket spinlocks

Aren't there runtime facilities in the kernel for tailoring behavior to the actual cache line size? Something like a cache line allocator?

That would make this kind of memory layout feasible until they invent a more complex form of caching.