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DateSat, 24 Mar 2007 18:29:59 +0100
FromIngo Molnar <>
SubjectRe: [rfc][patch] queued spinlocks (i386)
* Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com> wrote:

> Indeed, this technique is very well known. E.g., 
> http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/anderson01sharedmemory.html has a whole 
> section (3. Local-spin Algorithms) on them, citing papers from the 
> 1990 onward.

that is a cool reference! So i'd suggest to do (redo?) the patch based 
on those concepts and that terminology and not use 'queued spinlocks' 
that are commonly associated with MS's stuff. And as a result the 
contended case would be optimized some more via local-spin algorithms. 
(which is not a key thing for us, but which would be nice to have 
nevertheless)

	Ingo
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