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SubjectRe: [patch] adaptive semaphores: better performance for "short semaphores" or "long spinlocks"
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Monday, February 28, 2000 1:01 AM
Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk> wrote :
> Perhaps it would be better for a "short spin" to actually perform all
> the calculations of a schedule (goodness loop etc.), while checking to
> see if it should abort.
>
> That way the overhead of a real schedule() would be avoided when the
> contention isn't that long, and when there is a schedule, most of the
> hard work has been done already.

I've about 2 years of agreement here ;)

Davide.

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