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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH] alispinlock: acceleration from lock integration on multi-core platform
On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 09:16:43AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 09:42:27PM +0000, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> > > It suffers the typical problems all those constructs do; namely it
> > > wrecks accountability.
> >
> > That's "government thinking" ;-) - for most real users throughput is
> > more important than accountability. With the right API it ought to also
> > be compile time switchable.
>
> Its to do with having been involved with -rt. RT wants to do
> accountability for such things because of PI and sorts.

Also, real people really do care about latency too, very bad worst case
spikes to upset things.


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