Detecting and handling split locks

Posted Jun 9, 2019 22:53 UTC (Sun) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Detecting and handling split locks by luto
Parent article: Detecting and handling split locks

TSX is very recent invention and it's implementation is very tricky and buggy. First generations of CPUs where it was implemented had it disable on almost all models in the end.

I'm not surprised they haven't used it to implement something they needed 20 years ago.