Re: [PATCH -v7][RFC]: mutex: implement adaptive spinning

Andi Kleen
2009-01-09T06:44:41Z

> foo()
> {
> char a[1000];
> }
>
> bar()
> {
> char a[1000];
> }
>
> zot()
> {
> foo();
> bar();
> }
>
> uses 2000 bytes of stack.
> And with the right compiler version.

I believe that's fixed in newer gcc versions.

For old gccs we might indeed need to add noinlines though.

-Andi

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