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SubjectRe: [RFC] New locking primitive for 2.5
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On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 15:06, Andrew Morton wrote:

> A dynamic lock which says "we've spun for too long, let's sleep"
> seems to be a tradeoff between programmer effort and efficiency,
> and a bad one at that.

I'm not so sure. What if we can't _know_ how long the lock will be held
because we don't know the status of the holder? What if _he_ is
sleeping on some other lock or their are a lot of contending processes?

Certainly I agree, we need to put forth effort into designing things
right and with a minimal amount of lock held time.

> Possibly the locks could become more adaptive, and could, at
> each call site, "learn" the expected spintime. But it all seems
> too baroque to me.

Agreed, this is much too much ;-)

Robert Love

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