MCS locks and qspinlocks
MCS locks and qspinlocks
Posted Mar 13, 2014 3:15 UTC (Thu) by martinfick (subscriber, #4455)In reply to: MCS locks and qspinlocks by james
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> It looks like this is sufficiently infrequent
I wonder about that since these locks are meant for highly contentious locks!
Posted Mar 13, 2014 14:30 UTC (Thu)
by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)
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MCS locks and qspinlocks
And a corollary that on a computer, a one in a million chance race is going to happen all the time, frequent and infrequent have different meanings than colloquial use.