Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:32:44 +0200 | From | Avi Kivity <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -v8][RFC] mutex: implement adaptive spinning |
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Peter Zijlstra wrote: > Spinlocks can use 'pure' MCS locks. >
How about this, then. In mutex_lock(), keep wait_lock locked and only release it when scheduling out. Waiter spinning naturally follows. If spinlocks are cache friendly (are they today?) we inherit that. If there is no contention on the mutex, then we don't need to reacquire the wait_lock on mutex_unlock() (not that the atomic op is that expensive these days).
-- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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